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Now let's come to the Chinese word for apricot. That is xing. This is a very simple character.
The first part of this character is mun. Mun means tree, so here we have the tree radical
on the top. And the lower part is like this. This is actually a character in Chinese, kou,
which means mouth, which means mouth. Xing. But actually if you go to China, if you meet
some people from north China, you will find that their pronunciation is not xing. They
pronounce this as xien. Actually they make a retroflex sound of this character, so that's
why some people in the north pronounce this word. They have a lot of retroflex sounds,
just like me. If I say this character, I would like to say it xieng. Okay. Apricot. Xing
or xieng.