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How to Write "Underwear" in Chinese

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

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By Xi Chen
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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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"Before going to the shoes' names, let's first of all learn more about clothes' names. And now I'm going to teach you the Chinese word for "underwear", "nei yi". You already know that "yi" means "clothes". "Nei" means "inside". The clothes that we wear inside some out wear, they are underwear. So, you can also understand "nei" as something under -- underwear. Okay, let's see, this is "nei". Do you still remember the word for "neat" in Chinese? They look very much similar, except that here, "rou" has two "ren" -- this is ren -- has two ren in the character "rou", but in "nei", it's only one "ren". "Nei yi" -- underwear. Cross here. "Nei yi" -- underwear. "

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