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Words with all four tones

ximeng   August 7th, 2014 8:27a.m.

Just noticed that 乌鲁木齐 wu1lu3mu4qi2 has all four tones in one word. I think I've seen one more in my list but can't remember it now. For fun does anyone have any more?

pts   August 7th, 2014 9:24a.m.

The first few words that pop up on my mind. Actually there are many many more.

老奸巨猾(老奸巨猾) lǎojiān-jùhuá
教学相长(教學相長) jiàoxué-xiāngzhǎng
老气横秋(老氣横秋) lǎoqì-héngqiū
分庭抗礼(分庭抗禮) fēntíng-kànglǐ
漏网之鱼(漏網之魚) lòuwǎng zhī yú

ximeng   August 7th, 2014 9:47a.m.

Hah very nice - impressive to just pull those out like it's nothing :)

tausha   August 7th, 2014 10:09a.m.

Only have 2 in my list
番茄炒蛋 fan1qie2chao3dan4
自然景观 zi4ran2jing3guan1

edit: wrote in German for some reason, corrected it

ximeng   August 7th, 2014 11:03a.m.

I particularly like that first one tausha :) 1234.

读书人   August 8th, 2014 9:07p.m.

超级市场 chao1ji2shi4chang3

安勇氣   August 9th, 2014 12:00p.m.

Here's a sex one....:

慾火焚身(yu4 huo3 fen2 shen1) 4321... means horney!

tausha   August 9th, 2014 1:14p.m.

And it's like a countdown as well. Coincidence? Who knows...

Christian   August 9th, 2014 1:48p.m.

Reminds me of a road name here in Shanghai - 陈家桥支路 (Chen2jia1qiao2zhi1lu4). It misses tone 3, but has the very interesting feature of having four different but similar consonant sounds (ch, j, q, zh) - a good opportunity to practise all four of them.

ximeng   August 25th, 2014 1:05a.m.

Another nice one: 崇山峻岭 chong shan jun ling 2143 (/-\u) - suitably mountainous profile.

Schnabelhund   August 27th, 2014 9:28p.m.

五音不全 :)

ximeng   August 29th, 2014 10:03p.m.

Didn't know that one Schnabelhund, very nice :D

Amitabha   August 30th, 2014 7:13a.m.

I've been looking out for them, finally found one: 胡思乱想 hu2 si1 luan4 xiang3.

ximeng   August 30th, 2014 11:22a.m.

Thanks Amitabha, new one for me. I just heard another 1234 one - 光明磊落 guang1 ming2 lei3 luo4 - open and candid. This was in the TV show I mentioned in the other thread - if anyone is studying 成语 the finals from last year has a lot of fill-in-the-blank style questions you can test yourself on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZb1jEsWiSs

Quiz starts from 15:36 or so in the first part. A quote from one of the kids after they get knocked out that seems quite relevant to Skritter:

这个比赛对我最大的影响就是我平时对一些字不是特别愿意去写不过现在我明白了如果你不写的话对这个字没有一个全面的了解一定要多写否则有的字即使很常用但你仍是会忘了怎么写

(The biggest impression I had from this competition is that sometimes I don't really want to practise writing some characters, but now I understand if you don't write characters you don't get a full understand; you definitely have to write more otherwise even for common characters you'll still forgot how to write them.)

Just bumped into two more on that show: 小肚鸡肠 xiao3du4ji1chang2 - petty, and 疮痍满目 chuang1yi2man3mu4 devastation everywhere.

ximeng   September 4th, 2014 1:31a.m.

There really seem to be quite a lot of these ones compared to the four the same challenge. Three more I've come across in my queue recently:

人高马大 - ren2gao1ma3da4 tall and strong
凯迪拉克 - kai3di2la1ke4 Cadillac
狼吞虎咽 - lang2tun1hu3yan4 devour ravenously

ChengChung   September 4th, 2014 8:04a.m.

飛禽走獸 fei1qin2zou3shou4

jww1066   September 4th, 2014 9:38p.m.

满载而归 man3zai4er2gui1 - to return with fruitful results from a journey

ximeng   September 8th, 2014 8:29a.m.

忙中走错 mang2zhong1zou3cuo4 mistakes are made when busy. These are all interesting, learning quite a few new words from this thread, thanks all.

ximeng   October 1st, 2014 11:40p.m.

Added these as a list in case anyone's interested:

http://www.skritter.com/vocab/list?list=2580342269

If anyone's got any more I will add them if they get added to this thread or you should be able to add them directly as list is set to editable by anyone.

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