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.

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 ...

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 ...