For millions of Chinese people, the first software they download on a new laptop or smartphone is always the same: a keyboard app. Yet few of them are aware that it may make everything they type ...

BBC Languages - Learn Chinese in your own time and have fun with A Guide to Languages. Surprising and revealing facts about the Chinese language, key phrases to get started, details on the Chinese ...

Traditional Chinese groups all characters according to 214 radicals (simplified uses 189), which are organized based on number of strokes into a chart called the bushou. Each radical is itself a ...