The Chinese writing system, consisting of thousands of characters, is visually fascinating and deeply rooted in symbolism and meaning. One such character that holds great significance is the ...

This is a mini-guide to Chinese characters. You can either click "Start" and you will be guided from one section to another or you can click on the right-hand side to go to the section of your choice.

Even to the untutored eye, Chinese characters are not an alphabet, though many Americans who want to ask about them do not know what term to use for them, and questions are often asked such as, "Is it ...

Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning. When I write the character , it not only has a sound, niu, it has a meaning, “cow.” Only a ...

Trace the history of Chinese characters, and find out how this writing system has changed and evolved over thousands of years ...

10 facts about Chinese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Chinese with audio.

The word “heart” nestles in the middle of the traditional Chinese character for “love”. This conveys the idea that love lies in the heart. This festive season, our Cantonese slang series ...

This process has been the subject of two books published in the last two years: Thomas Mullaney’s scholarly work The Chinese Computer and Jing Tsu’s more accessible Kingdom of Characters.

Your level is A1 CEFR level or GCSE grade 3-5 (old grade: D or C). You can read/ recognise about 150 Chinese characters, and handwrite about 50 characters. You can understand and use familiar everyday ...

The Chinese paddlefish belongs to an ancient lineage of paddlefish that has been around for at least 100 million years. But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone ...

When Roy Chan Ching-hin noticed how Hong Kong staples, namely bamboo theatres and dim sum trolleys, were slowly disappearing, he feared the city’s traditional Chinese characters and Cantonese ...

For decades, Chinese workers have wrapped up their working lives at relatively young ages: 60 for men and as early as 50 for women. But all that is about to change as the Chinese government passed ...