Learning a new language requires dedication and time. If you speak English, learning Mandarin, commonly known as Chinese, will be a lot more difficult but with great motivation and commitment you ...

Its authors, An Xiao Mina, Jennifer 8 Lee and Jason Li – all based in North America – show readers how Chinese characters form their meaning by relating them to the emoji that we use every day.

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...