This is a mini-guide to Chinese characters. You can either click "Start" and you will be guided from one section to another or you can click on the right-hand side to go to the section of your choice.

As the Lunar New Year approaches, the Richmond community is invited to vote for the Chinese character that best sums up 2024.

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 ...

Mastering Chinese is daunting, in large part because learners must memorize thousands of distinct characters. So it is both a revelation and a relief to learners when they discover radicals. Radicals ...

Radio 4’s ‘Chinese Characters’ takes a look at his extraordinary life, and the impact it had on the perception of China in the wider world. Here are nine fascinating facts about Bruce Lee ...

LinaBell is arguably Disney’s most popular character in China, with many joining queues to see it. Read more at ...

Remarkably concise, the classical Chinese proof uses just 17 characters, compared to about 10 lines of geometric formulas in Euclid's explanation. To Zhou, these characters provide a rigorous ...