Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” 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 ...

At this very moment, the words you are reading are entering your mind at the speed of thought. Below your awareness, strings of letters are retrieving words and meanings as effortlessly as oxygen ...

China recently issued a notice on improving Chinese character writing in primary and secondary schools in an effort to promote the country's linguistic and cultural heritage, the Ministry of Education ...

Malta held the third Chinese character writing competition for primary and secondary school students on Saturday to mark the upcoming United Nations Chinese Language Day, which falls on April 20.

Today is UN Chinese Language Day, a celebration honoring the richness of the Chinese script. The date was chosen to coincide with guyu (“grain rain”), a traditional solar term (half-month seasonal ...