The last character in my name is 毅, spelled yi; and yi happens to be the sound with the most possible matches in Chinese, with hundreds of characters spelled the same way (thanks, Mom and Dad).

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 ...

Regarding 265 questions about Chinese-derived readings and Japanese readings of the newly-added 191 characters, the percentages of correct and wrong answers were 72% and 16%, respectively, with 12 ...

For reference, common Chinese characters are made up of nine strokes on average. This is a huge leap in efficiency. (Valenti, by the way, was a Chinese translator during the Vietnam war, ...

We decided to survey high-school third graders because this age group’s percentage of enrolling in high schools was as high as 98% and they are expected to read all Chinese characters in the ...