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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.

But there’s an easy way to learn Chinese pronunciation quickly: through pinyin. Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet.

They needn’t have worried, though – when he was 14, Matthew invented a device that helps people with dyslexia better memorise Chinese characters ... is that you can learn [a lot, quickly ...