Mandarin Monday: The Next Station Is...?

Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends.

As a foreign 打工人 salaryman or salarywoman living in Beijing, it's not every day that you're going to discuss the US presidential election with your colleagues, or find yourself in desperate need of knowing every different dialect spoken across China. There is, however, one thing you'll need to be familiar with, even before stumbling your way through a menu and ordering food in Chinese. That is, the names of Beijing's subway stations, lest you find yourself  20km away from your office on Monday morning.

To help you remember these tricky names (some of them are truly bizarre, I have to say), and test how well you know your adopted city, we collaborated with 帝都绘 (Wechat ID: diduhuiBJ) to present a few riddles about subway station names. And the rule is the same as last time, simply click the image for the answer. Just make sure you're paying attention and don't miss your stop!

Super Easy

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Read: Mandarin Monday: Lao Wai or Lao Beijing? This Quiz May Tell You the Answer

Curator: 宋壮壮
Riddles: 卓嘉琪，胡星宇，张田田，张益博，张琎，张博浩
Designer: 卓嘉琪，宋壮壮，Joey Guo (the Beijinger)
Translator: Zeus Zou (the Beijinger)