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Now let's count to the names of some Chinese foods but the first I am going to teach you
is fried rice, chao fan.
It's not necessarily that all fried rice are Chinese foods, but fried rice is a very important
kind of Chinese food, fried rice. Chao is stir fry and fan is rice, fried rice. It's
very meaningful, the word is very meaningful. In the character chao, the last stroke means
fire, because it comes from this independent character and also a word. This is huo, huo
means fire. When it becomes a radical the last stroke here is turned into a shorter
long dot. The right part of chao is shao, shao and chao they pronounce singular, we
say that this is the pronunciation part of this character. Fan, you know this already,
as in meal. Fan, rice which means meal or foods or rice. This part, this is a food radical
and this is the pronunciation part. Fried rice, chao fan.