For example, Gu's family and close friends call him Licheng, as do his non-Chinese colleagues; his Chinese coworkers call him Gu Laoshi ... people have only one character in their first names.

Top, right and bottom: Wyatt (pseudonym, left), Sa Laoshi (pseudonym ... dressed as Feng Baobao, a character from The Outcast, a Chinese metaphysical comic series first published in 2015.

The Chinese language is difficult, and perhaps no one has struggled more with it than the inkers and bearers of America’s Chinese-character tattoos. Most infamous was probably the tattoo on ...

As the year draws to a close, the tradition of selecting a "Character of the Year" has taken root in several Asian countries deeply influenced by Chinese culture, reflecting the mood of society ...

“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 ...

Unversed in Chinese characters, they used fortune tellers and almanacs to decide my name based on the ideal number of strokes for each character, which was calculated for maximum auspiciousness.