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 ...

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 ...

The Korean alphabet is better than yours. Meet the king who invented it and watch him work his linguistic magic in this ...

Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological ... during a meeting to decide which dialect a national version of such a system should represent. Wang’s system for learning ...