While most of you responded to my earlier query about Asian handwriting recognition to say that, often, it’s even easier than Romanized character recognition, reader James Yopp explains how sometimes ...

China recently issued a new notice on strengthening correct Chinese handwriting education across primary and secondary schools, in an effort to promote the country's linguistic and cultural heritage, ...

Chinese calligraphic handwriting (CCH) is an ancient, expressive art of writing Chinese characters that has been deemed as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. In Chinese tradition, CCH is both ...

The world's major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system has become increasingly complex over the course of its ...

Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological evolution can be. Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the ...

A new study has confirmed that the ability to follow correct stroke order significantly enhances foreign learners' Chinese writing skills, including recognizing and remembering characters. Published ...

At this very moment, the words you are reading are entering your mind at the speed of thought. Below your awareness, strings of letters are retrieving words and meanings as effortlessly as oxygen ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...