In this video, I demonstrate how to write the Chinese character 女 (nǚ), which means 'female.' I walk through both the formal ...

In this video, I show you how to write the Chinese character 王 (wáng), which means king and is also a common surname, using ...

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, students around the world are increasingly interested in learning Chinese. Some are drawn by the pull of a foreign culture or the challenges of a new language; ...

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 ...

The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

What's significant about Chinese characters? Chinese characters are the system of symbols used to write Chinese. Unlike an alphabet, which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a unique ...

Few languages are so associated with their written form as is Chinese. The mere mention of the language calls to mind an elaborate, beautiful and—to outsiders—mysterious script. The Chinese themselves ...

Local calligraphers write Chinese character "biang" during a Writing "Biang" event held in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, April 13, 2014. Nearly 2,000 people took part in the ...

Local calligrapher Xu Xiaodong writes Chinese character "biang" on a piece of paper of 100 square meters during a Writing "Biang" event held in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, ...