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Summary: Learn how to write & pronounce the Chinese symbol (character) for bed in this free Chinese language lesson on video.
"Now, let me teach you the Chinese word for bed, chuang. This is a one-character word, and let's see. This part, in Chinese, we call this a spacious character, or radical, spacious radical. With this radical in a character, it means the meaning of this word or this character may be something is big, something is spacious. And this part inside, exactly in Chinese, it means "wood" because it's pronunciation is mu. Mu in Chinese means wood or tree. So, we know that originally, or even now, some beds are made of wood. This stroke is a long, wide, falling stroke. Ok, again, let's write chuang. Chuang, bed."
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