This is a mini-guide to Chinese characters. You can either click "Start" and you will be guided from one section to another or you can click on the right-hand side to go to the section of your choice.

Even to the untutored eye, Chinese characters are not an alphabet, though many Americans who want to ask about them do not know what term to use for them, and questions are often asked such as, "Is it ...

Chinese characters have been around for a long time. Although it may be difficult to see at first glance how the character 日 resembles the sun, we can see how it has evolved over time into its ...

Spread via handbooks and murals, the blocky, easily legible ‘meishuzi’ characters of the 1950s and ’60s gave Chinese ...

Trace the history of Chinese characters, and find out how this writing system has changed and evolved over thousands of years ...

Crises have been referred to as "dangerous opportunities." However, the opportunity depends on what those involved do at ...

TAIPEI -- Calligraphy and seal-carving art works by 200 prominent artists from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan are being exhibited at the 2024 Cross-Strait Chinese Character Culture & Art Festival ...

As a boy, Gary Yau would cruise around Hong Kong in the back seat of his parents’ car. What caught his eye was not a toy shop or playground, but road signs. After he got home, the four-year-old ...