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How to Write "Cupboard" in Chinese

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Summary: Learn how to write & pronounce the Chinese symbol (character) for cupboard in this free Chinese language lesson on video.

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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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"Now let's come to "cupboard" - "chu gui". "Chu gui" we called another type of cabinet, because we this character, "gui". And "chu" here is something like "kitchen". So the kitchen cabinet, cupboard. Well the character "chu" it contains this wood radical. And the right part, its character pronunciation is "chu", it means "kitchen". You can see it is very meaningful. We add one more wood radical to the character "kitchen" so that you know "cupboard" are made of wood. This is "gui". Last time, let's write, don't forget the wood radical here. "Chu gui" - "cupboard"."

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