The Confucius Classroom at the Chinese Culture and International Education Exchange Centre in South Africa brought together ...

Yet, in English, this monumental writing system remains shackled to an inadequate term: “Chinese characters.” Unlike cuneiform (“wedge-shaped”) or hieroglyphics (“sacred carvings”) — names that evoke ...

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 ...

This results in texts that contain much more visual variety than almost every other writing system. Chinese writing presents the reader with a unique visual story formed using a diverse range of ...

and the Chinese art of calligraphy developed naturally from its unique writing system. Every dynasty had its great calligraphers, whose calligraphic styles became symbolic of their times ...

This year’s Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) Chinese reading paper had some tricky questions, while the writing paper was more difficult than usual, according to Chinese tutors. Almost ...