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How to Write "Visa" in Chinese Symbols

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Summary: Learn how to write "Visa" 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 got her Certificate of Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language in 2005, one of less than 5,000 certificate holders across China. Recently, she was newly appointed program...read more

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"Visa is called gian zheng in Chinese. Gian, you understand gian here as signed. Gian is like a pass so this is the literal meaning of the two characters in the word gian zheng. It's signed pass. With this signed pass you can go into another country. And gian, gian in Chinese it also means certificate or license. Here the three strokes are like, this is right falling and this is left falling. Gian zheng, visa."

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