Study Mandarin: You3 Qian2 Jiu4 shi4 Ren4 Xing4

As for a Chinese-learner, especially those study Chinese online, you are supposed to have the basic knowledge of the internet culture. There are a lot of newly-spread phrases or sentences on the internet, which are also frequently-used in people’s daily communication.

Today, I would like to introduce a new phrase “任性(ren4 xing4)” to you. If you want to study mandarin in a interesting and efficient way, you can join us and learn to use these catchwords like “有钱就是任性(you3 qian2 jiu4 shi4 ren4 xing4)”.

Recently, it has been widely used by netizens to describe those rich people. We can say it is a word of ridicule. Because we are studying Chinese now, we have to learn Chinese phrases comprehensively. That is to say, what is the previous meaning of “任性” and how does its meaning change on the internet.

Let us see a sentence——“他是一个固执任性的人(ta1 shi4 yi2 ge4 gu4 zhi4 ren4 xing4 de5 ren2)”. Can you guess the meaning of “任性(ren4 xing4)” here?  Actually, it is the previous meaning here. It means “willful” or “self-willed”. The sentence means “he is a stubborn and willful man.” And then, we will come to the recent situation. The story goes like the followings: In April, Mr. Liu spent 1760 yuan online buying a health care product. Soon after, he got calls from a stranger who persuade him to buy other matched medicines. In the following four months, Mr. Liu remitted a total of 540,000 yuan to the swindler. He said that he had already found himself cheated when he was fooled out of 70,000 yuan. "I just wanted to see how much could they take from me!" So, the reference of “任性” has been widened much. and some relevant sayings come out rapidly like “成绩好就是任性(cheng2 ji4 hao3 jiu4 shi4 ren4 xing4)”. Can you get the meaning of it?

Join us and you will find it is interesting to study Chinese in this way.

source:  http://smile1xia.jigsy.com/entries/education/study-mandarin-you3-qian2-jiu4-shi4-ren4-xing4