The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...

Growing up in Taiwan, ShaoLan Hsueh stuck out. She liked writing in Chinese. "I know all the children hated it, but I was a bit odd in that I loved writing Chinese characters," says Hsueh, the ...

Mastering Chinese is daunting, in large part because learners must memorize thousands of distinct characters. So it is both a revelation and a relief to learners when they discover radicals. Radicals ...

The written Chinese language will blow your mind. Each character is made up of an intricate series of strokes, sometimes as many as 64. Combining these characters in different ways can give each one ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

China has launched its first WeChat mini program to collect rarely used Chinese characters. The program collects characters that cannot be inputted into computers and uploads them into a character ...

Lena draws the Chinese character "wu" (top) as a sheep, and "kan" as a singing jellyfish. [Photo provided to China Daily] To most people, Chinese characters may seem like random combinations of ...