Only a small number of symbols is necessary in an alphabetic system (generally under 50), but a logographic system, such as Chinese writing requires thousands of symbols. How many characters does the ...

Because of the obvious radical difference between the way that the Chinese write and the way that we write, many myths have grown up, not just around China's writing system, but around its language as ...

His article, titled "Will a character based writing system stop Chinese becoming a global language? A review and reconsideration of the debate," was published in the journal Global Chinese.

Two interesting posts on the subject by linguistics professor Geoffrey Pullum, “There Was No Committee” (2014), mostly about English, and “The Awful Chinese Writing System” (this Wednesday ...

Some of these scholars assumed the Chinese writing system had been trudging along a similar evolutionary path. Just as a hieroglyphic representation of a fish 𓆟 may have simplified into the ...

Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet. For example, the word for hello, 你好, would be written “nǐ hǎo.” Pinyin is much ...

The Mandarin Chinese Leaving Certificate exam will take place next Monday. It's the second time that students in Ireland will sit this exam, which was first introduced last year. However, the ...