My parents gave me my English first name, Kevin, but left my Chinese name to my maternal grandfather. Envisioning someone with a passion for learning, he chose the characters 博闻 from the phrase 博学多闻 — ...

Singaporean Chinese names have been shaped by policy, cultural shifts and evolving notions of identity. Read more at ...

(Updated) My hatred for pinyin, the convention for rendering Chinese words in Western script, is undiminished. But a little while ago I used the wrong example to make the point. As readers Jake ...

OS X has a nice pinyin input system for Simplified Chinese. However, the pinyin input system for Traditional Chinese is really really bad. So in 10.3 ...

Dialect names have an enduring appeal for Chinese Singaporeans, despite the Speak Mandarin campaign. Read more at ...

Can I Input Chinese on an iPad?. The iPad is a multilingual tablet computer that supports Wi-Fi connectivity and optional 3G network connection capability. With the iPad, you can change the ...

Mandarin Chinese is one of the hardest languages for English speakers to learn, but these apps helped me become fluent.

Learn all about pinyin in Mandarin with this fun animation and interactive quiz from BBC Bitesize for KS2 Mandarin students aged 7 to 11.

In 1958, a brand new writing system was introduced in China by a professor called Zhou Youguang. It was called Pinyin and it helped to rapidly increase Chinese literacy levels. Show more In 1958 ...