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How to Write "Expensive" in Chinese Symbols

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Summary: Learn how to write "expensive" in Chinese Symbols with expert tips on Chinese characters in this free video language lesson 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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"Now let's talk about a pair of words, expensive and cheap. Expensive in Chinese we can say, it's gui. Gui - expensive, because now we are talking about house rent, so we can make a compound with what we have learned. Zu jin is rent house. Zu jin gui is the rent is very high, and if it's cheap the Chinese word is pian yi. Pian yi. We can say fang zu pian yi. Fang zu and zu jin they are the same, that is the rent. The rent is very cheap, fang zu pian yi. Zu jin gui. In these examples we know gui is for expensive and pian yi is cheap."

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