Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning. When I write the character , it not only has a sound, niu, it has a meaning, “cow.” Only a ...
American high school student Venus Rios sparked a flurry of chatter when she posted this week on Chinese social media ...
However, among all of these writing systems, Chinese characters, Hanzi, hold a special place in my heart as being the most elegant and aesthetic. Despite the practical limitations of Chinese ...
As the Lunar New Year approaches, the Richmond community is invited to vote for the Chinese character that best sums up 2024.
HONG KONG -- "Love" has been selected as Hong Kong's Chinese Character of the Year 2024, a yearly voting by the Democratic ...
When Roy Chan Ching-hin noticed how Hong Kong staples, namely bamboo theatres and dim sum trolleys, were slowly disappearing, he feared the city’s traditional Chinese characters and Cantonese ...