While most of you responded to my earlier query about Asian handwriting recognition to say that, often, it’s even easier than Romanized character recognition, reader James Yopp explains how sometimes ...

Brainstorm readers may remember that Caitríona Osborne recently pointed out the unique features of the Chinese writing system which have led it to be considered difficult to learn. One aspect of ...

China recently issued a new notice on strengthening correct Chinese handwriting education across primary and secondary schools, in an effort to promote the country's linguistic and cultural heritage, ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...