China Heritage—a National Geographic-like monthly with a glossy interest in the roots of Chineseness—recently organized an effort to identify the 100 Chinese characters that "carry the most ...

In Chinese, most characters are built out of roughly 100 “building blocks.” I designed a program on my computer and then started prioritizing the most common and useful building blocks.

What often flies under the radar, though, are the Chinese characters who ... he could defeat many of anime's most popular protagonists. These characters aren't defined by where they come from ...

The Chinese character zhen, meaning "vitalize", was named the nation's most popular character related to domestic affairs this year, while the character wei, meaning "risk" or "crisis", was chosen ...

This character occurs in the written form of biángbiáng miàn, or biangbiang noodles, a dish of wide, flat noodles popular in the Chinese province of Shaanxi. The status of biáng as most ...

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 ...