How to Write "Bamboo Hat" in Chinese Characters

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Part of the video series: How to Write Chinese Characters: "Snowing on the River"

Summary: Learn how to write "bamboo hat" in Chinese characters with expert Chinese language tips in this free online Chinese characters video clip.

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By Esther-Xiaohua Liu
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Esther-Xiaohua Liu is a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has taught Chinese at...read more

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"ESTHER-XIAOHUA LIU: This word is li, li. Li means a cap. Li means a cap. Two parts, the part on top is written this way. This is a radical of bamboo. Like this. This word means bamboo, but when we use this as a radical we write in this way, two. And the part on the bottom is written this way. Like this. This is also another word means to stand, to stand. Li means a cap. But here as you see a radical here is a bamboo so you can imagine this cap could be made of bamboo. Yes, that's a bamboo cap. The shape is almost like this one. This is called li."