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20 Chinese Words that you will never forget once you see them

In this video, Puna introduces interesting Chinese compound words made up of two or three characters with individual meanings that combine to form a new word, such as "airplane" and "volcano". She goes over twenty examples like "ham", "computer", "eyeglasses snake", and "corn" to help viewers learn and understand Chinese vocabulary better.

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Published on 2022-03-10

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