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Chinese Symbols for Pocket & Vest

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Summary: Learn the Chinese symbols for "pocket and vest" with tips on writing and pronouncing Chinese characters from a Chinese language specialist in this free video on Chinese words and phrases.

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By Weijia Li, eHow Presenter

Weijia Li has been teaching Chinese to foreign students at the college level for more than a decade. Besides a doctorate degree in educational technology, she also holds a master's...read more

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"Chinese writing is very different from most other languages in the world. In the Chinese writing system, Chinese symbols represent each character which corresponds to a single spoken syllable. A majority of words in all modern varieties of Chinese require two or more characters to write. Many Chinese characters were adopted according to their meaning by the Japanese and Korean languages to represent native words, disregarding pronunciation altogether. Chinese characters are also considered to be the world's longest continuously used writing system."

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