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How to Write "Elephant" in Chinese Symbols

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Summary: Learn how to write the word "elephant" 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 "Elephant" in Chinese Symbols

Now I'm going to teach you the Chinese word for "elephant" "xiang". This character its, the strokes of this character are a little bit complicated. Let's look at strokes in detail, this is the first part on the top, left falling and horizontal turning and then let's finish this part. Next stroke is the long left falling that across this part and here from here let's put a little bit right falling hook and two shorter left falling. Pay attention to that here there's two left left falling strokes are shorter than this one and a even shorter one and this is a long right falling stroke. O.k. let's write "xiang" again because elephant is big and sometimes people also say "xiang" or "da xiang". "Da" means "big", big elephant is the elephant. O.k. anyway "xiang" is good enough. "Elephant" "xiang".

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