Artistic brush painting and calligraphy are intertwined because of the pictographic nature of many Chinese characters, the use of the brush in forming them and the traditional incorporation of ...

"Computer" (电脑) becomes "electric brain." The first character, 电, is one of a handful of pictographic Chinese characters, which are drawn to look like their meaning.

Despite their complexity, Chinese characters should be preserved for being a fascinating product of human ingenuity and artistry ...

All Out of Luck New Chinese restaurants that happen to be named Lucky Cricket, Lucky Cat, and Lucky Lee’s lead to accusations of cultural appropriation ...

Analytical by nature, she was also deeply interested Chinese culture - history, language, literature and art - so it was only natural for her to sleuth out why the intriguing characters came to ...

She was also deeply interested in Chinese culture — the history, language and literature — so it was only natural for her to riddle out how the characters came to look as they did.

They add that more can be expressed in 140 of the Chinese language's pictographic characters than in English.

In his opinion, supported by Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, pictographic characters exemplify the stability that sets Chinese society apart more than alphabetic counterparts.

Competitors in China's fast-growing search industry face unusual challenges in dealing with a language based on pictographic characters and distinctive consumer demands.