After a decade-long revision, the third edition of The English-Chinese Dictionary has returned — bigger, sharper, and more ...

Kangxi may have 40,000 entries, but the UST dictionary is more linguistically diverse, since its entries are in Spanish, Chinese characters, Mandarin, Hokkien and even Tagalog.

Taken together, the character essentially means "poor as dirt and ugly." According to What's On Weibo, the character qiou has become an instant hit with young people on Weibo, China's hugely ...

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 ...

Robert Siegel talks with Tian Tang, author of a Web site dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture. Tang posts photos of Chinese character tattoos that either contain errors ...

The simplest character is yī (one), a single stroke written from left to right. The most complex character, biáng (above), is made up of 57 strokes.

The written Chinese language will blow your mind. Each character is made up of an intricate series of strokes, sometimes as many as 64. Combining these characters in different ways can give each ...