How to Write "Sugar" in Chinese Symbols

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Summary: Learn how to write "Sugar" in Chinese Symbols with expert tips on writing and pronouncing Chinese characters in this free language lesson 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 "Sugar" in Chinese Symbols

Now let me teach you the Chinese word for "sugar". "Tang". Okay, in this character it contains the radical that indicates this character is kind of food. And the right part is its pronunciation part. Exactly, this character pronounces "tang", the same pronunciation as in this sugar "tang". And let's write it again. Because this is the radical, so the last stroke cannot be written so long. Watch my stroke order. Okay, so now you may have already noticed that some radicals in Chinese indicates the meaning of food. For example, here, this is the radical we often use in some food names, and also can you still remember this? This is also a kind of food radical, especially it means from liquid food. For example, the seasonings we have learned "tsu" and "jiang". And this radical also it means "food" or "meal" as in the word or character "fan". Okay, so when we are learning the Chinese characters, you need to make them, make the different characters or the complicated strokes meaningful to yourself. Okay, this is "tang", "sugar".

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