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, ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to write the Chinese character 女 (nǚ), which means 'female.' I walk through both the formal ...

Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...

Hanzi (Chinese characters) are not difficult to understand and learn if studied from the aesthetic perspective of pictographs and as a carrier of Chinese culture, says Yu Dan, a spokeswoman for ...

Growing up in Taiwan, ShaoLan Hsueh stuck out. She liked writing in Chinese. "I know all the children hated it, but I was a bit odd in that I loved writing Chinese characters," says Hsueh, the ...

Heng Ping Shu Zhi (Lit: Vertical and horizontal strokes) is a new book published in February that tells the story about the cultural history of hanzi, or Chinese characters. The book comes from ...

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 ...

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 ...