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Summary: Get an introduction to animal Chinese symbols with expert tips on Chinese characters in this free language video clip

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Xi Chen Xi Chen received her Certificate of Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language in 2005, one of less than 5,000 certificate holders across China. Recently, she was... read more

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How to Write Animal Chinese Symbols

In this series let's learn some animal names but before that, we should know what is the Chinese for animal, "dong wu". "Dong wu" literally "dong" is "moving" and "wu" means "thing" or "matter". So "moving thing" is meaningfully what we have about "dong wu". "Dong" and "wu" and the right part of "wu" is a character "wu" means "not" and here this part serves as the pronunciation radical of "wu" because this pronunciation is also "wu". O.k. "dong wu" very long left falling stroke here and this, this is the char, this is the radical coming from this character which means "ox or "cow" but when it becomes a radical the horizontal stroke. Now the horizontal stroke looks something like this, a falling, a rising. O.k. "dong wu" "animal".

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