I know that I wrote it in Japanese. It is just to save me the trouble of looking up the pinyin. I know the characters (hanzi) from Japanese. But, I learned another method of transliterating Chinese (not pinyin)
Oh now I am more confused than I was before. I did an exercise and the person who graded it worte ?? on it.
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?? in Chinese means ‘not bad’ or ‘that is correct’, but the first meaning is more common.
eg.
"How does your food taste?"
"Not bad!"
eg.
"Your name is ____, right?"
"That is correct."
Hope this helps!
desufnocsihsifelttuc | Nov 19, 2009
?? bu cuo means "not correct" in formal situations, In the more common informal, spoken language it means "Not bad."
Liuzhou Laowai | Nov 19, 2009
Bu cuo literally means "not bad," but, unlike in English, it’s a positive statement. It’s almost like saying "pretty good."
And what I’ve heard mostly for "that is correct" is ??, not ??.
Bill W | Nov 19, 2009