Traditional Chinese groups all characters according to 214 radicals (simplified uses 189), which are organized based on number of strokes into a chart called the bushou. Each radical is itself a ...

Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning. When I write the character , it not only has a sound, niu, it has a meaning, “cow.” Only a ...

Traditional Chinese characters used in Hong Kong ... Calligraphy might look pretty, but it’s harder than it looks The huge number of characters is also not a very efficient way of writing ...