Hong Kong’s first locally born giant pandas have finally been named and introduced as Jia Jia and De De. The names of the ...

What's significant about Chinese characters? Chinese characters are the system of symbols used to write Chinese. Unlike an alphabet, which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a ...

The Chinese language is difficult, and perhaps no one has struggled more with it than the inkers and bearers of America’s Chinese-character tattoos. Most infamous was probably the tattoo on ...

Trace the history of Chinese characters, and find out how this writing system has changed and evolved over thousands of years. Also Included is a short lesson on the structure of Chinese words.

From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about ...

Chinese characters are, of course, all over Hong Kong, and if you visit Japan, you will see some Chinese, which is used in the country’s kanji script. But did you know that Chinese characters ...

Translating to “Clear and Fast,” Lin began designing the MingKwai sometime during the 1940s. Instead of trying to overlay ...

“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese ...

Legend has it that when Cangjie created the characters for writing, millet grains rained from the sky and the ghosts and gods wept at night — a poetic testament to the profound cultural significance ...