Semi-circled by journalists, and a nervous-looking middle-aged Chinese man—Kao Chung-chin, the engineer who invented the machine—she radiates a smile as she pulls a sheet of paper from the device.

This is a mini-guide to Chinese characters. You can either click "Start" and you will be guided from one section to another or you can click on the right-hand side to go to the section of your choice.

Semi-circled by journalists, and a nervous-looking middle-aged Chinese man – Kao Chung-chin, the engineer who invented the machine – she radiates a smile as she pulls a sheet of paper from the ...

On one occasion, he even applied to use a wacky name that contains 48 Chinese characters. The man, from a village in Guiyang county, Hunan province, central China, was born as Zhu Yunfei ...

Sheets of the Chinese character "biang" written by student Ms Cheng, who gave up after writing it 200 times. PHOTO: CCTVNEWS/FACEBOOK Instead of even attempting to write the character, the second ...