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, ...

Brice Marden, “Etchings to Rexroth” (1986), print; sugarlift, aquatint, openbite, drypoint, and scraping. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Purchase through a ...

A one-hour language class on the Dongba script, one of the pictographic writing systems still in use today, was held online on Tuesday as part of a series of events to mark the United Nations' annual ...

The Mandarin Chinese Leaving Certificate exam will take place next Monday. It's the second time that students in Ireland will sit this exam, which was first introduced last year. However, the ...

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- As a series of events being held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions this month, the spotlight has been brought to the ...

Chinese characters are beautiful. That’s perhaps why many Westerners find the notion of the script etched on their bodies so appealing. If only they could read the tattoos! Enter blog Hanzi Smatter ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

“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 ...

Key issue There are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, which creates a challenge for technologies developed based on Western alphabets. (Courtesy: iStock/alexsi) Chinese characters, in use by ...

This exhibition explores the evolution of Chinese characters from ancient times to the present. Chinese script is one of the oldest written languages in the world and the only ancient language still ...