In Chinese, most characters are built out of roughly 100 “building blocks.” I designed a program on my computer and then started prioritizing the most common and useful building blocks.

Chinese characters, often regarded by foreigners as those unreadable squiggly lines, are used by millions of Chinese people every day. In fact, Chinese characters are the world's oldest ...

Using a more modest keyboard of 33 keys, they were able to access close to 200 characters at any time with the stroke of one key, which was an improvement over the Japanese, but still not enough ...

Cao Baoping, a professor of Chinese language at Sichuan International Studies University, said that research on the alphabetic form of Chinese characters has unveiled the original wisdom of ...

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 ...