How to address different people in China?
@chineseontheair (20)
China
October 2, 2008 9:07am CST
Hi everyone,
I know some words to address different people for example,
IF two people were born in the same generation, the younger one will address the older one"dage" or"dajie" The older one will address the younger one"didi" or "meimei" TO adderss your parents' generation of relatives, use "shushu' "ayi" "bofu" "bomu" etc. To address your grandparents' generation of relatives use "yeye" or "nainai'
But different places of China strangers are addressed in different way, Do you know it? can you tell me more?
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@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
3 Oct 08
I am Malaysian Chinese, but basically we are speaking mandarin in our daily life. So, the greetings that you mention are practiced over here too. But since we are born in multi-racial society, and had been the colony of British, our daily language contains foreign elements. For example, we could either greet our uncle "shu-shu", "bo-bo", "jiu-jiu" (depends on father's or mother's brother). But we greet them using English as "uncle" too. It applies to our "aunties" too.
