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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leading film producers highlighted the challenges of developing good scripts in China and abroad at a panel during the Shanghai International Film Festival on Sunday. Wanda Media GM Jiang Wei (aka ...

CHINESE writing began as individual symbols thousands of years before the characters were brought together to create a true written language. Symbols that resemble Chinese characters appear on ...