Chinese business phrases: table, WeChat, deadline

A business phrase is the line that opens with 您, asks for a file, or sets a deadline; it is not 买单 and not an exam deck.

Teaching note. Cut the email to a greeting with 您, 收到, an 附件 request, a date, and 谢谢. A 180-word paragraph translated from English is the expensive mistake.

You get reception, table, WeChat, and deadline. You do not get 不要辣. You do not get 登机口. HSK 1–2 reaches the lobby. A table with a plan needs HSK 3 (about 600 words). A wider range needs HSK 4 (about 1,200). Counts: Wikipedia HSK.

FSI places Mandarin near 2,200 classroom hours for professional working proficiency (FSI page). These phrases are not those hours. Use the figure to kill the office Chinese in eight weeks advert, not to delay 很高兴认识您.

您 versus 你 is not an HSK 6 topic. It is the first meeting. The ear for 您: tones.

It covers 您, company intro, 考虑, 收到, 附件, 交货, 报价, and B2B 发票. The four-room path — what to rehearse this week — is Chinese for business. Reusable turns live in the twelve-dialogue article.

It does not cover 不要辣 or 打包. If there is a fair dinner, rehearse it on restaurant and the next morning here. It does not cover 登机牌: travel.

It does not cover the HSK paper. If you want to sign up and run mocks, exam prep. Dates: chinesetest.cn. Framework: CLEC. A well-written 收到 is not HSK 4 listening.

The first meeting uses 您. Switching to 你 is the other person's call, not your Anki deck. 嗨 sounds like a group chat, not a lobby. 请问贵姓 is more formal than 你叫什么; do not use it with an intern.

您好 (nín hǎo, hello — polite you)

很高兴认识您 (hěn gāoxìng rènshi nín, glad to meet you)

我是…公司的… (wǒ shì… gōngsī de…, I am … from … company)

请问贵姓 (qǐngwèn guìxìng, may I ask your surname?)

我们先介绍一下 (wǒmen xiān jièshào yíxià, let's introduce ourselves first)

请坐 (qǐng zuò, please sit)

喝茶吗？ (hē chá ma, would you like tea?)

The tea is not a restaurant order. It is room courtesy. 请坐 is not 有位子吗. If 您好 still merges with 你好, register is in greetings; here the job is to put it in front of the title.

我姓… (wǒ xìng…, my surname is…)

这是我的名片 (zhè shì wǒ de míngpiàn, this is my card)

您 stays until the other person offers 你. Do not decide on day two because there is already trust. At a stand, 您好 + title + 名片 opens. 嗨 + a given name closes badly. The 嗨 versus 老师 essay is in greetings; here the job is not to drop the pronoun out of nerves.

请给我名片 (qǐng gěi wǒ míngpiàn, please give me your card)

这是我的微信 (zhè shì wǒ de Wēixìn, this is my WeChat)

A twenty-minute table does not ask for a recited contract. It asks for 可以, 考虑, 同意, and a date. 没问题 is more casual than a close. 可以 sometimes only means it is feasible, not a signature.

这个可以吗？ (zhège kěyǐ ma, does this work?)

我们再考虑一下 (wǒmen zài kǎolǜ yíxià, we will think it over)

我同意 (wǒ tóngyì, I agree)

没问题 (méi wèntí, no problem)

什么时候交货？ (shénme shíhou jiāo huò, when do you deliver?)

星期二交货 (xīngqī’èr jiāo huò, delivery on Tuesday)

报价 (bàojià, quote)

太贵了 (tài guì le, too expensive)

太贵了 also exists for a souvenir. The context here is 报价, not a shop. 合同 shows up when the level is no longer HSK 1. Do not put it in the first-week deck just in case. If you cannot say 星期二, 合同 can wait.

合同 (hétong, contract)

计划 (jìhuà, plan)

The expensive mistake is not a flat tone. It is a digit copied wrong or a translated paragraph. WeChat wants short turns. 收到 closes that you saw it. 请发文件 asks for the file. 附件 names what hangs off the message. 方便时回复 lets the other person off without closing badly.

收到 (shōudào, received)

请发文件 (qǐng fā wénjiàn, please send the file)

附件 (fùjiàn, attachment)

确认 (quèrèn, confirm)

方便时回复 (fāngbiàn shí huífù, reply when convenient)

发邮件给您 (fā yóujiàn gěi nín, I will email you)

请发附件 (qǐng fā fùjiàn, please send the attachment)

Do not translate a 180-word English email. Cut it to: greeting with 您, 收到, file request, date, 谢谢. Numbers and proper names get checked. The AI tutor can be wrong. One digit copied wrong costs more than a flat tone.

谢谢 (xièxie, thanks)

A message that fits WeChat, not a paragraph. Greeting, 收到, request, date. If you cannot write it without looking at English, it is not there yet. The AI tutor comments on the line; it does not sign the order.

您好，收到。 (nín hǎo, shōudào, hello, received)

请发附件。 (qǐng fā fùjiàn, please send the attachment)

星期二可以吗？ (xīngqī’èr kěyǐ ma, does Tuesday work?)

谢谢。 (xièxie, thanks)

要发票 in a restaurant asks for a food voucher. In B2B, 发票 is the Chinese tax errand. Do not study both lines the same day if you still mix 买单 and 交货. Restaurant phrases cover the table bill. Here 发票 goes with 报价 and 交货.

要发票 (yào fāpiào, I want an invoice)

发票 (fāpiào, official invoice)

买单 (mǎidān, the bill — restaurant, not this page)

If a work trip includes dinner, rehearse dinner on the restaurant page and the next morning here. One deck mixes 不要辣 with 附件. Hotel 前台, if needed, is in travel, not in the 交货 deck.

It is not HSK exam prep. There is no mock, no HSK 4 stamina, no paper calendar. Six-level counts: Wikipedia HSK. The meeting floor, if you need it as a level map, is HSK 3 and HSK 1 for the lobby.

An HSK 3 listening item may bring 计划. That does not make this page a syllabus. 收到 on WeChat is not scored on the paper. If this week's goal is to sign up and time a mock, leave and use the exam path. Mixing 附件 with 把 the same day is the URL-collector mistake.

It is not an MBA and not simultaneous interpreting. 合同 appears as a word, not as a legal clause. If you cannot say 星期二, do not recite 合同.

It is not the basic phrases pack. 谢谢 is assumed. If 请再说一遍 is still red, go back there before the fair. It is not the greetings essay on 嗨; here 您 works in front of the title.

Minutes 1–5: 您好, company, title, 很高兴认识您. Record yourself. If the tone on 司 drops, do not add contract lexicon. The ear: tones.

您好，我是…公司的… (nín hǎo, wǒ shì… gōngsī de…, hello, I am … from … company)

Minutes 6–10: 这个可以吗, 我们再考虑一下, 什么时候交货, a round 报价. Say 星期二. If the day does not come out, 合同 can wait.

什么时候交货？ (shénme shíhou jiāo huò, when do you deliver?)

Minutes 11–15: write, do not recite. 收到 + 请发附件 + date + 谢谢. Three lines. Not a legal memo. The AI tutor, if you use it, corrects those lines, not a chatbot tour of Shanghai.

收到，请发附件。 (shōudào, qǐng fā fùjiàn, received, please send the attachment)

Order for the two weeks: 14-day path. Long turns: twelve dialogues. This page does not clone those two.

If the fair is Monday, do not open an HSK 4 deck just in case. 您, 交货, and 附件, said, beat a PDF of 80 stickers. The mock waits on exam prep.

You introduce yourself with 您, company, and title. You ask or give a 交货 date and a round 报价. You write 收到 + an 附件 request. You do not need a legal memo.

If it is red, go back to the 14-day path. If you want the paper, exam prep. Signup: chinesetest.cn. Counts: Wikipedia HSK. Framework: CLEC. Fair dinner: restaurant.