你身高多少 一米六五
“What's your height? 5 feet 5 inches.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我觉得这个背影很像 刚刚好 身高你问问她
“I think this back looks like hers. It's just right. Ask her height.”
你身高多少 一米六 五
“What's your height? 5 feet 5 inches.”
刚刚好 身高也差不多
“It's just right. Her height is the same as hers too.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In mainland China, height is universally expressed in meters and centimeters using the format '一米 + number'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how tall are you / what is the height
A natural, standard conversational formula for asking someone's height in spoken Chinese.
165 centimeters (literally 1 meter 65)
The standard metric convention used across mainland China to state height.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Estimated height between 1.75m and 1.80m.”
“She was about 1.6 meters tall.”
“All right, I'm 5 feet 3 inches tall.”
“I just look like a fool”
“You're quite tall. Really? You're almost my height,”
“My guess is it's at least around 10 meters.”