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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 ...

On a bright fall morning at Stanford, Tom Mullaney is telling me what’s wrong with QWERTY keyboards. Mullaney is not a technologist, nor is he one of those Dvorak keyboard enthusiasts. He’s a ...

Have you ever felt lost when trying to pronounce or understand a Chinese name? Well, you're not alone. It's a challenge many of us face, and it stems from the way Chinese names are romanized using ...

A student takes part in a calligraphy competition in Jiashan county, Zhejiang province, in August. Ten of the 50 participants will go to Jiaxing for a follow-up competition. Hu Lingxiang / for China ...

China's national language authority has published a new Chinese Coded Character Set to allow more than 17,000 rare Chinese characters be recognized by computers, according to Central China Television ...

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 ...

Editor's note: The auspicious Chinese character "fu" is probably mentioned most during the Spring Festival, while pasting the character written on red paper is one way Chinese people celebrate their ...