Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

Chinese characters have evolved over thousands of years. The quintessence of Chinese civilization and culture has thus been handed down from generation to generation. But they do not only express ...

Is Chinese difficult to learn? 你可能经常听到这样的话： You may often hear people say: 我想学汉语，但是汉字太难了。 I want to learn Chinese, but Chinese characters are too difficult. 不少想学汉语的人在开始学习之前可能都有这样的想法。 Quite a lot ...

Chinese characters have been used for about 3300 years, and the earliest Chinese characters were oracle bone inscription. Before New China was founded in 1949 people used traditional characters, but ...

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 ...

Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (HCCR) is a dynamic and multifaceted field that integrates machine learning with traditional script analysis to enable accurate interpretation of complex and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...