Little Crab’s Adventure

I have been reading cloth books to my kiddo, who loves playing with the flaps. With her attention span being less than 5 minutes, these short books (usually one sentence per page and around five pages long) are perfect. Since the books we appreciatively got from other moms are in English and I want her to be exposed to as much Chinese as possible, I need to translate the pages for her. To lighten my mental load, I’ve created these little vocab cheat sheets that I will be sharing here under the vocab list category.

The first vocab list post will be on Little Crab’s Adventure. A quick Google search shows that there are several versions of this book, each featuring slightly different art and colors, but the content appears to be the same. Enjoy joining little crab on their adventure, where you’ll meet a big-mouthed whale and dance with an octopus. Happy reading!

Vocabularies

English	Traditional	Simplified
crab	螃蟹 (páng xiè)	螃蟹 (páng xiè)
adventure	冒險 (mào xiǎn)	冒险 (mào xiǎn)
meets	遇見 (yù jiàn)	遇见 (yù jiàn)
whale	鯨魚 (jīng yú), 鯨	鲸鱼 (jīng yú)
octopus	章魚 (zhāng yú), 八帶魚 (bā dài yú), 蛸 (shāo)	章鱼 (zhāng yú), 八带鱼 (bā dài yú), 蛸 (shāo)
hide-and-seek	捉迷藏 (zhuō mí cáng)	捉迷藏 (zhuō mí cáng )
waves goodbye	揮手告別 (huī shǒu gào bié)	挥手告别 (huī shǒu gào bié)