Twenty-one years after the emergence of "Five Strokes" character input method, another original invention by Prof. Wang Yongmin was formally announced in Beijing on June 26. This new set of numeral ...

Chinese characters are made up of strokes. Learning to write them involves not only learning where all the strokes go, but also the order in which they are supposed to be written and the direction of ...

You would not want to be late for Mr Wang Sijun's class. To discipline frequent latecomers, the professor who teaches at the Chengdu College of University of Electronic Science and Technology in China ...

There has never been a lack of advocates for simplifying or Latinizing Chinese characters. Some of the best-known scholars, embittered by the humiliations China repeatedly suffered at the hands of ...

Creative or painful: is 'biang' the hardest Chinese word to write? A teacher in China has invented a taxing new way of preventing students from turning up late for his classes. Wang Sijun, who teaches ...

As a growing number of people around the world learn simplified Chinese instead of the more complicated traditional characters, young creatives in Taiwan are fighting to promote what they fear will ...

Chinese characters are made up of strokes. Learning to write them involves not only learning where all the strokes go, but also the order in which they are supposed to be written and the direction of ...