How to Say 'Watermelon' in Chinese

Video Transcript

"Now let me teach you the Chinese word for watermelon. Xi gua. Like in English, gua is actually melon. It means melon. And xi, as we said last time, it means west. I don't know if watermelon comes from west, but that's what we have in our Chinese. Xi gua means west, literally means west melon, but now we call it, we know it's watermelon. Xi...actually you can see, now I'm writing very slowly, these two strokes, they are not two vertical. There's turning here. But in quick writing you can also turn. These two strokes, like, something like two vertical strokes, that's okay. And gua similarly is very simple, but you need to watch the stroke order very carefully. Okay, xi gua again. Xi gua, watermelon."