Travel Chinese Flashcards

The phrases from our travel situations, one card at a time: airports, taxis, hotels, menus, paying, bargaining and what to say when something goes wrong.

Reading a Chinese menu · Reading a whole dish name 134 / 198

红烧牛肉

hóngshāo niúròu

red-braised beef

烧 braised + 牛肉 beef. The formula, working exactly as advertised.

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Every card here is a phrase from our Chinese for Travellers situation pages — the same wording, the same pinyin, drawn from the same source so the two can never disagree. 198 cards, in the order you would meet them on a trip.

Looking for graded vocabulary instead? The HSK flashcards run levels 1 to 6, and the HSK word lists have the full 5,000.