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Ok, now let's look at what is the Chinese word for stairs, lou ti. In this Chinese word actually ti means stairs and lou, the meaning of lou is building. Stairs in a building that's lou ti, stairs in Chinese. We know that lou contains this wood radical... Read More »

Now let's come to the Chinese word for "armchair" - "fu shou yi". In English the word is "armchair'. In Chinese, here it is not "arm", this character means "hand". "Shou" means "hand", and "fu", "put", and "yi" like in English, this is "chair". So for... Read More »

Now, let me teach you the Chinese word for bed, chuang. This is a one-character word, and let's see. This part, in Chinese, we call this a spacious character, or radical, spacious radical. With this radical in a character, it means the meaning of this... Read More »

OK, now let's come to the Chinese word, wan, for bowl. Wan contains this radical. This radical comes from this character shi, which means stone. And maybe, primitively, the bowls were made of stone and the right part is wan. We use this part as the... Read More »

Now let me teach you the Chinese word for "sugar". "Tang". Okay, in this character it contains the radical that indicates this character is kind of food. And the right part is its pronunciation part. Exactly, this character pronounces "tang", the same... Read More »

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