but no particular meaning can be attached to it in its function as a letter of the alphabet. Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning ...

Having spent time studying world languages, I have had the chance to learn and write a number of different scripts, from the standard Latin alphabet to the Japanese Kana, and many more. However ...

When Roy Chan Ching-hin noticed how Hong Kong staples, namely bamboo theatres and dim sum trolleys, were slowly disappearing, he feared the city’s traditional Chinese characters and Cantonese ...