The wildly popular cuddly stuffed animal toy Labubu is compared to an ancient bronze at China's Luoyang Museum and the demon Pazuzu.

He says he found on some rare occasions, when he could get a step-by-step evolution of a character from its original pictographic form with an explanation of its original meaning and an interpretation ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Chinese citizens charged with smuggling a fungus described as a potential agroterrorism weapon highlights China's broader threat to U.S. security, economy, and critical infrastructure.

French sinologist Joel Bellassen went back to Anyang, Central China's Henan Province recently as a speaker at the 2025 China (Anyang) International Conference of Chinese Characters. Wearing a ...

A county in southwest China's Guizhou Province is working on new regulations to better preserve endangered ancient "Shuishu," the peculiar pictographic characters of the Shui ethnic group. As the ...

Recent deep learning based approaches have achieved great success on handwriting recognition. Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world. Previous research has ...

The state broadcaster launched a popular national programme, “Chinese Spelling Hero”, in which children paint complex characters. An adult version also aired.