How to Write "Peacock" in Chinese Symbols

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Part of the video series: How to Write Animal Chinese Symbols II

Summary: Learn how to write the word "peacock" in Chinese symbols with expert tips on animal Chinese characters in this free video clip.

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

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How to Write "Peacock" in Chinese Symbols

Now let me teach you the Chinese word for Peacock, kun que. Kun que is the kind of bird, is the beautiful bird, so you can find the meaning of bird here in this word. Because que in Chinese, it means bird. And kun; the left part of kun it's something like this. Actually, it is transformed from this character, which is zi. You know this character a lot. It's used as the bond character in many words, and when it becomes a radical, the last stroke changes into a rising stroke, and on the right just the one stroke; horizontal turning hook, and let's come to que. So you you must maybe you know this this character in Chinese, because it's pronounced at shao, the meaning of which is little. This is the first part; we know about que, and then put a a vertical here, there. We come to this part. For a for character look like this, let's first finish this horizontals, and then the vertical, and the last horizontal is the last stroke. Okay, kun que again, remember, this is the rising. This is not horizontal, shao first on the top, and the rest. Okay, this is the last stroke is the horizontal, kun que, peacock.

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