The French have a saying about incomprehensible communication. Americans say, “It’s Greek to me.” But the French say “C’est du chinois” — meaning, “It’s Chinese.” Chinese characters are so complex ...

Chinese is not written in a phonetic alphabet in the way that European languages are. While some Chinese characters have a phonetic function and give you a clue as to their pronunciation, others are ...

Currently, most of the characters that we see are not handwritten characters, but rather the typeface data that is printed on paper or displayed on the computer screenfont"is. There are many kinds of ...