In other words, the same sound can be said with ... that goes at the end of yes/no questions (ma 嗎). Because Chinese characters are so complex, pinyin was developed by Chinese linguists as ...

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 ...

10 facts about Chinese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Chinese with audio.

In Japanese, verbs come at the end of a sentence; in Chinese they come in the middle. In Japanese, the characters may be read with words of several syllables. In Chinese every character is read with a ...

The second character, gweh, can be difficult even for proficient Chinese readers, but that is because it was never meant to be a Chinese word. Year of the Snake predictions: How will your Chinese ...

People on Threads wrote that simplified Chinese characters were used on a final exam and in a textbook for a translation course at the university, while the business card of a professor bore the words ...