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Summary: Learn how to write "at" 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.
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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
This word is zai. Zai. Zai. The fourth tone. And to write this word, we supposed to write this stroke first. See? This is the part in the left and top, and also I have another part. Zai. Actually, this part inside is also another word, for dirt, for earth. It's read "tu." Tu. Dirt, dust. But when inside here, it gets together for one word. "Zai" means "somewhere, in somewhere, at somewhere." For example, if you say, "I'm in China," you can say "Wo zai Zhong guo." I'm in China. Wo zai zhong guo. If you say, "Wo zai jiao shi," Wo zai jiao shi, that means, "I am inside the classroom." So "in" or "inside" or "at" is "zai. "