Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

There's no Chinese alphabet. Instead, each word is represented by a character, or a compound of two or three characters. A respected Chinese dictionary lists more than 85,000 characters.

There's no Chinese alphabet. Instead, each word is represented by a character, or a compound of two or three characters. A respected Chinese dictionary lists more than 85,000 characters.