Quick Picks: How to Write "Pine Tree" in Chinese
 
Sign In Sign Up — It's Free!

How to Write "Pine Tree" in Chinese

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Showing 1-5

Part of the video series: How to Write Chinese Characters: "Seeking The Hermit But No Meeting"

left_arrow right_arrow
Add to My Playlist What is a playlist?

Summary: Learn how to write "pine tree" in Chinese characters for the poem "Seeking the Hermit But No Meeting" with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

Views: 447 | Tags: chinese, language, characters, writing, foreign, sinography, ideograms, logogram, pictograms, poems, foreign languages

Get the latest Flash player.
Email Video Add to Favorites
About the Expert

Esther-Xiaohua Liu Esther-Xiaohua Liu is currently a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts,... read more

Hide Comments

Conversations About This Video

  • Comments
    (0 comments)
  • Questions & Answers
    (0 questions) (0 answers)
Be the first to comment on this video.
Have a question about this video topic? Ask our community members and let them share their knowledge with you!
Ask A Question

Video Transcript

How to Write "Pine Tree" in Chinese

The first word is "song." This word is read "song." This part we call pinyin. Pinyin is a mark of pronunciation of Chinese word. And this mark is a mark of tones. As you know, there are four tones in Chinese pronunciation. And this mark is first tone. It's read "song." This character has two parts. The first part here is write in this way. This is also another word, which means "the wood." Wood. And the part in the right is write in this order: 1, 2, 3, 4. Song. "Song" means "a pine tree." A pine tree. So in Chinese, we have another word which can get together with "song" that exactly means "a pine tree." It's called "shu." Song shu. "Song shu" means "a pine tree."

Watch these related videos

Languages Ads

Community Members who...

  • Favorited this Video
  • Rated This Video
Read these related articles
See more articles

Top Tags

alphabet anime calligraphy characters china chinese chinese characters chinese language class classes common conjugation course dictionary espanol Feng Shui foreign foreign language foreign languages french ideograms japanese language languages learn logogram mandarin moon online phrases pictograms poems poetry pronounce radicals shui sign sign language sinography spanish speak speaking symbols tenses travel verbs water words write writing
Check out what people are watching now
left_arrow right_arrow