When I first came to Korea in 1965, Chinese characters, called "hanja" in Korean, could be seen everywhere — road signs, names on buildings, advertisements and even in newspapers. However, hanja has ...

Mandarin Chinese is without a doubt one of the toughest languages for English speakers to learn. Not only do its non-phonetic written characters bear little semblance to the Latin alphabet of western ...

Mastering Chinese is daunting, in large part because learners must memorize thousands of distinct characters. So it is both a revelation and a relief to learners when they discover radicals. Radicals ...

In the small room where she teaches, in an old residential building in Huainan, a former coal-mining city in east China's Anhui Province, these icons have become a kind of classroom code. A thumbs-up ...