(活生生的中文字) 5 min read   Chinese is spoken by more than a billion people, primarily in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and in diaspora communities around the world. Like all living languages, Chinese evolves over time. Over the past three millennia, Chinese writing has taken on new forms, and new words and […]

(历久不衰的成语故事) 6 min read   Chinese idioms (成语) are concise expressions that convey complex ideas, moral lessons, or life philosophies. Idiom stories explain the origins and meanings of these expressions and, in some ways, resemble Aesop’s Fables. They are an integral part of Chinese culture. People who grow up in Chinese-speaking communities are deeply familiar

(中文字如何形成) 4 min read   Chinese characters are logograms: each character is a standalone symbol that represents meaning, rather than being written with letters of an alphabet. Korean and Japanese also use logographic writing systems, whereas the majority of the world’s languages are based on alphabetic systems. Although Chinese characters are often thought to depict