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 ...

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 ...

Hong Kong’s first locally born giant pandas have finally been named and introduced as Jia Jia and De De. The names of the cubs, affectionately known as “Elder Sister” and Li ...

Chef Jung Ho-young and Chef Yeo Kyung-rae will face off with independence movement dishes. In KBS2 'President's Ear Is Donkey ...

What often flies under the radar, though, are the Chinese characters who show up and steal scenes with their raw power or deadly skills. They're not always in the spotlight, but their sheer ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s first locally born giant pandas have finally been named and introduced as Jia Jia and De De.

“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 ...

However, instead of a more traditional setup the contraption featured five rows of keys topped with Chinese characters. After reaching out for help online, Felix realized her grandfather had been ...

By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 The National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for excitement, but in 2013 it was. Huang Zhenyu, a student ...

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 ...

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 ...