Overview of More Chinese Symbols for Food

Series Summary

China is one of the oldest recorded nations on the face of the earth and one of the most technically advanced as well. As humans we are able to trace back our lineage thousands of years and most end up going through China at some point along the way. The Chinese have one of the oldest forms of writing as well called calligraphy. This is a very difficult and complex series of lines, dots and characters that make up the Chinese alphabet. They also have separate symbols and characters for full words and even for numbers.

Although it is not the easiest language to learn to write, there are a few pieces of advice that can help you along the way to learning Chinese. Our expert, Xi Chen, will show you how to write and tell you how to say different foods in Chinese. She will walk you step by step through the formation of each word and explain each aspect in this process. Since there is a lot of important detail in each part of the letter character, these lessons are invaluable to the serious student!

Video Transcript

"This is part two of foods and drinks names. In this part let me teach you some Chinese names for western foods and Chinese foods. Before that let's learn, what the Chinese foods are and what is the western foods in Chinese. This is xi can; this is the Chinese word for western food. Here, zhong can for Chinese food. Xi means western and zhong means Chinese can means food. It's very easy to understand, xi can for western food and zhon can for Chinese food. In the character of can, the lower part is this character shi which means food or meal. That is why we have this part as the lower part of the character can. Now let's write, xi can and zhong can. This part is the after part on the top and xi can. Zhong is zhongoa for Chinese. Xi can western food and Zhong can Chinese food."