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How to Write "Athletic Shoes" in Chinese

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

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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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"Okay, the first shoe's name I'm going to teach you is the Chinese name for "sport shoes", "yun dong xie". You must still remember that "xie" in Chinese means "shoes", therefore shoes they are called "xie". So for different shoes name in Chinese, we call, we say "something xie". And the shoes for sports, the shoes for athletics, are "yun dong xie". And you must still remember that the clothes that we wear when we do sports is "yun dong fu" so here it is "yun dong xie". "Yun", this is the pronunciation part, and this is the meaning part because this radical means "to walk". And "dong", itself, means move, moving. "Xie", okay, "yun dong xie", "sport shoes", "athletic shoes". Let's write it again. This is one stroke, this is a separate stroke. "Yun dong xie", "athletic shoes". "

eHow Article: How to Write "Athletic Shoes" in Chinese

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