How to Write "Cabinet" in Chinese

Video Transcript

"Now let's come to the Chinese word for "cabinet". You may have known it because in the word "dan shi gui" you learned that character. In Chinese cabinet is "gui zi". "Zi" is pronounced toneless, you say it very light and it has nothing concrete in meaning. Just a character depending on the "gui". And "gui" means "cabinet". "Gui" contains the wood character because "gui", "cabinet" is made out of wood. And when we come to the right part, first let's finish the half enclosure structure, and then writing something like this. Here the 2 parts cross the vertical. "Gui zi", this is one stroke and this is another separate stroke. "Gui zi" - "cabinet"."