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Introduction to Chinese Symbols for Furniture
How to Write "Sofa" in Chinese
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Summary: Learn how to write & pronounce the Chinese symbol (character) for sofa in this free Chinese language lesson on video.
"OK, now let's get to the first piece of furniture at home: sofa, "sha fa". You can tell that "sha fa" and sofa, they sound very similar. Yes, this Chinese word is just a transliteration of its English word "sofa". And for a word like this, we called it barred or long words, you need to commit to memory what the exact Chinese characters are. And "fa' here also you know that "f1" pronounced as "fa" becomes another word that is hair. Our hair is "fa". But here its pronunciation is "fa" and it is in this word "sha fa". Last time, let's see, "sha fa", this is sofa, "sha fa"."
eHow Article: How to Write "Sofa" in Chinese
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mightyriver said
on 8/14/2009 Dear How To.com
Please include or specify in the title that the Chinese characters taught are simplified.
If possible it would be great to have the traditional version of the character included in videos such as this as well.
Sincerely,
Traditional Chinese How-To User