The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

Robert Siegel talks with Tian Tang, author of a Web site dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture. Tang posts photos of Chinese character tattoos that either contain errors ...

Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News The QWERTY keyboard was once the envy of the world, but not anymore.

Chinese characters are made up of strokes. Learning to write them involves not only learning where all the strokes go, but also the order in which they are supposed to be written and the direction ...

Chinese F&B brands are becoming increasingly prominent, fuelling a familiarity with China that legitimates its stronger ...

From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years.

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 Gundam pilots to hired assassins and contractors, there are plenty of strong anime characters who come from China.

Chinese characters are the system of symbols used to write Chinese. Unlike an alphabet, which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a unique meaning.

An introduction to the Chinese writing system including its development over time, basic structures, and use.

A challenging typewriter English has it easy. The 26 standard character phonetic alphabet is pretty simple to memorize, especially when compared to symbolic written languages like Mandarin Chinese.