Blog Tag - Chinese Characters

Mandarin Monday: Those Beijing Characters That Are on Your Tongue But Can't Write Down
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends. Among...
Mandarin Monday: Capitalized Chinese Characters? What The Hell Are Those?
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends....
What Should We Call These Beijing Subway Stations?
Ever feel like some of the names of subway stations in Beijing can be a little too wordy? Have you ever wondered why the announcer has to add a 站...
Mandarin Monday: HerStory in Chinese Linguistics
Compared to the diverse array of first-person pronouns throughout history, options for third-person pronouns have been a bit more limited. The few on...
Mandarin Monday: Judge These Characters by How They Look
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends....
Mandarin Monday: 10 of the Most Complicated Chinese Characters in Use
As we know, learning to write Chinese characters involves great patience, lots of memory power, and uncompromising willpower. However, even with...
Mandarin Monday: Beijing Accent Guide, 儿Special
It's 3AM, you're in Gulou and you're spent. All you want is to get in a taxi and head home, but the cab driver insists on having a conversation. You...
Mandarin Monday: How to Order From a Chinese Menu Using Chinese Characters
Beijing’s a great place for culinary exploration. Most of us live surrounded by restaurants, and most of us have restaurants nearby serving cuisines...
"Knock Knock ... Kuaidi!": The Characters You Need to Shop on Taobao
As part of the Beijinger’s Mandarin Month series that runs daily ahead of our June 25 Mandarin Mixer, we present some useful characters and phrases...
SImplified Chinese Characters Celebrate 50th Anniversary
Still controversial 60 years their adoption, native and non-native learners of written Chinese may have reason to celebrate the 60th anniversary of...
Art Attack: Creators Project, Access Chollywood and City of God
This week, get lost in art and music of the future at the Creators Project, learn more about who’s bending over backwards for whom in the...
Wokipedia: K is for....
… kaifan 开饭 This imperative sentence sounds even more succinct than its English equivalent, “Let’s eat!” It could be a call from a loving mother,...
Instant Character Recognition Feature for iPhones
Pleco, a New York-based company who specialize in developing tools to learn Chinese, have announced a new iPhone feature that looks like it will be...
Sinoglot - For Chinese Language Lovers
Here’s one for Chinese language lovers: Sinoglot, a fascinating group blog about hanyu and the myriad other languages spoken within the PRC’s...
Quick Language Link: Who left the water dragon head running?!
We all wrestle with the language during our time in China, and most of us are either studying or have studied Mandarin in the past. We’ve also all...