


These can be divided into two sections, 单纯方位词 (dān chún fāng wèi cí) simple localizers and 合成方位词 (hé chéng fāng wèi cí) compound localizers. 方位词 (fāng wèi cí) or location nouns are used to express both direction and location. The second part of the article will focus more on phrases and vocabulary that will be useful when asking for and giving directions in Chinese. First, I’m going to introduce some basic location words and then some sentence patterns that you can use to describe where objects are, if an object exists and locations as description. In this article, we’re going to look at two related topics: location and directions in Chinese.
