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How to Write "Radical Bing 1" in Chinese Radicals

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Summary: Learn how to write "Radical Bing 1" in Chinese radicals in this free video and easy online foreign language lesson. Improve your mandarin characters today!

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By Bo Feng
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Bo Feng is an experienced Chinese/English translator and interpreter. He has worked for Chinese International Travel Services, Lingnan Art Publishing House and Phillips Petroleum. Feng...read more

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"Okay, let me introduce a new radical that’s, bing! In oracle, or Ghaun, or bronze scripts it's written something like that. That shapes like the ice kind of get buckled up in the river. So, this chararcter here in the drawing script means exactly as ice, as in character. In standards where the Catazoo that was developed later on, this article that kind of evolve from this to that. Will not stand alone, it's a character. On the other hand, it carries the meaning of ice and hands cold and freezing, frozen. It is used to form a lot of characters that has the similar meaning, such as bing. That is ice itself. Long is cold. Ning is congealed. So that's the radical, bing."

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