How to Write "Cat" in Chinese Symbols

Video Transcript

"Now let me teach you what is the Chinese word for "cat", "mao". You can see that this character, the left is the stroke of this. Actually this is a very important stroke we should know, it come from this characters. You can see that this means, this character means "dog" in Chinese but gradually the shape of this character changes like this. You can still see the similarity but of the two, of the two shapes but when it becomes a radical the dot is lost, so this character is pronounced as "quan". "Quan" when is becomes a "dog" radical its shape is like this and naturally it means "dog". Now this radical is what we call "animal" radical so that's why in this series you will come across many animal words that contains this "animal" radical. Let's come to "mao" again "mao", the last stroke is the short left falling, now "cat"."