Unlike the English language, which uses the Roman alphabet, Mandarin does not have an alphabet. Mandarin characters have developed over approximately 4,000 years. But Mandarin characters aren't ...

Chinese is not written in a phonetic alphabet in the way that European languages are. While some Chinese characters have a phonetic function and give you a clue as to their pronunciation, others are ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings marks ...

Last summer, Barbara Odom of Chanhassen looked at her daughter and considered two possibilities for the girl's first days in a Mandarin Chinese kindergarten class. One, Gabbi would love language ...

AS DIPLOMATIC incidents go, it was not a big one, but for many people in Hong Kong and southern China it felt like the latest in a long line of slights. In May, Nintendo—a Japanese toy company— ...

A secondary school student has brought a High Court challenge against an alleged refusal to accept answers given in traditional Chinese characters in the Leaving Certificate Mandarin Chinese ...

Marvel's martial artist superhero Shang-Chi is headed to the big screen in 2021. Not only will Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu as the titular hero, but it'll also ...

A secondary school student has brought a High Court challenge against an alleged refusal to accept answers given in traditional Chinese characters in the Leaving Certificate Mandarin Chinese ...