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Summary: Learn how to write & pronounce the Chinese symbol (character) for pillows in this free Chinese language lesson on video.
"Ok now let's come to this word pillow zhen tou. Ok zhen tou, tou is also a toneless character it should be a pronounced very light. And tou like zhe it's another Chinese character that we use a lot in many words that it serves as a suffix without any meaning. So you can see that zhen here actually means pillow and let's see the left a part of zhen is the wood a radical because originally Chinese pillows they are they were wood, wood pillows and the right part is pronunciation part. Ok, this is tou and tou itself it means head but here it's just suffix character without meaning. Ok zhen tou let's come do it again, zhen tou pillow."