Each Chinese character is pronounced as a single syllable. This is the source of the myth that Chinese is monosyllabic. The truth is that most Chinese words are polysyllabic and are written in ...

KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS The Language Revolution That Made China Modern By Jing Tsu. One summer’s evening in 1916, 27-year-old Zhou Houkun stepped up to a podium to unveil a marvelous invention: a ...

China's entry into modern computing was critical in allowing the country ... Typing Chinese was a monumental challenge. Chinese has no alphabet. Instead, it uses tens of thousands of pictographs. When ...

The written form of modern Chinese has over 50,000 characters. Few master them all – but just to read a newspaper, you’ll need to know at least 1,000.

Chinese has no alphabet. Instead, it uses tens of thousands of pictographs. When Lin started his work in the early 20th century, there was no standardized version of Mandarin Chinese.

That middle path would marry both east and west and preserve the Chinese language in the digital age. Typing Chinese was a monumental challenge. Chinese has no alphabet. Instead, it uses tens of ...