Understanding Logographic Systems What is a Logographic System? Traditionally, languages are thought to require an alphabet for written communication, consisting of letters like A, B, and C. However, ...

It's often taught that every language requires an alphabet for writing. It consists of individual letters like a, 'aa', or 'A', 'B', 'C'. But there's one language in the world that completely breaks ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. A lot of Chinese websites seem to have a different form of URLs or web addresses. They use numbers not the names, long numbers too, seemingly at ...

If you speak Mandarin, you can e-mail your friends using the Chinese alphabet and read articles on the Web in Chinese. But one thing you can't do is type a full Internet address — a URL — using ...

In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are ...