Of the approximately 200 countries in the world today, China and Japan are the only two that still use the Chinese writing system, known as kanji in Japanese. According to the Kojiki and ...

Unlike an alphabet, which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a unique meaning. Although some large dictionaries have over 50,000 characters, you 'only' need 2 - 3,000 to read a ...

Li Hai Tan, John A. Spinks, Guinevere F. Eden, Charles A. Perfetti, Wai Ting Siok, Robert Desimone, Reading Depends on Writing, in Chinese, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...