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Invisible Summit: One Blind Person's Journey to 8,848 Meters
MEP 92 16-9
CHINESE CHARACTERS

游: Learn the Chinese Character for Journeys and Adventures

​The character 游 is for travel, imagination, and going with the flow

By Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Pan Fengfan (潘风帆)   April 30, 2024
CHINESE CHARACTERS

How a Character That Once Referred to Barbarians Now Represents Civility

Learn how the character 文 went from being a term for the uncivilized in ancient China to referring to literature, refinement, and culture in the modern day

By Pan Fengfan (潘风帆)   January 19, 2024
SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 公

A character with the public interest at heart

By Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Siyi Chu (褚司怡)   October 6, 2022
CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 癌

The history of language around cancer

By Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)   February 4, 2021
CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 抱

Embrace the history of this clingy character

By Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)   January 21, 2021
SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
TRADITIONAL CULTURE

On the Character: 卫

A character that will never let down its guard

By Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Aaron Hsueh   July 26, 2020
SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 滑

Don’t let go of this slippery character

By Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)   March 29, 2020
TECHNOLOGY

Walled-Off: Pinyin Input

Third-party input systems for typing in Chinese

By William Tanza   October 3, 2019