In Chinese, most characters are built out of roughly 100 “building blocks.” I designed a program on my computer and then started prioritizing the most common and useful building blocks.

If you stop a random person on the street in China, there’s a pretty good chance their surname would be either Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu or Chen. That’s because those are the five most common ...

For reference, common Chinese characters are made up of nine strokes on average. This is a huge leap in efficiency. (Valenti, by the way, was a Chinese translator during the Vietnam war, ...

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

The Council for Cultural Affairs issued a draft to review the Joyo Kanji Table, or the national list of Chinese characters in common use, (established in 1981 with 1,945 designated Chinese ...

Regarding 265 questions about Chinese-derived readings and Japanese readings of the newly-added 191 characters, the percentages of correct and wrong answers were 72% and 16%, respectively, with 12 ...