Unlike an alphabet, which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a unique meaning. Although some large dictionaries have over 50,000 characters, you 'only' need 2 - 3,000 to read a ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

Chinese characters are the system of symbols used to write Chinese. Unlike an alphabet which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a unique meaning.

Including the traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the number of required glyphs is likely to be over 13,000.

Moreover, the numerical Chinese character input method has the advantage of easier to learn than the "Five Strokes" font, three of the five methods can be mastered in five to 20 minutes.