Mastering Chinese is daunting, in large part because learners ... Once inducted into radicals, students can look up characters in a dictionary without knowing the pronunciation. In addition, they can ...

It is an old Chinese custom to present a "Picture of a Hundred Longevity" to a prominent person as a birthday gift. Wang said the dictionary explained the origin of each type of Shou character as ...

According to the Analytical Dictionary of Chinese Characters, Fei Cui originally refers to a kind of bird called Green Feather Bird (青羽鳥), Fei is the male bird while Cui is the female counterpart.

As the year draws to a close, the tradition of selecting a "Character of the Year" has taken root in several Asian countries deeply influenced by Chinese culture, reflecting the mood of society ...

Legend has it that when Cangjie created the characters for writing, millet grains rained from the sky and the ghosts and gods wept at night — a poetic testament to the profound cultural significance ...

Unversed in Chinese characters, they used fortune tellers and almanacs to decide my name based on the ideal number of strokes for each character, which was calculated for maximum auspiciousness.