Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name - in English-language journals in which Mandarin is represented in the Latin alphabet - was challenging when it came ...

More Chinese and Taiwanese restaurants in the U.S. are embracing romanized Mandarin names for their businesses. It's a sign of growing familiarity with the language of mainland China.

Unlike an alphabet, which represents only sounds, each Chinese character has a unique meaning. Although some large dictionaries have over 50,000 characters, you 'only' need 2 - 3,000 to read a ...

SEOUL, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The city of Seoul has decided to change the Chinese version of its name to avoid unintended political ... Although the Korean language has its own unique alphabet, ...

Zhou Youguang sits at home in Beijing, in 2015. Born when a Qing dynasty emperor was on the throne, he went on to help invent the Pinyin writing system used for transliterating the Chinese alphabet.

During the early rise of consumer PCs in the 1980s, no Western-designed CPU, printer, monitor, operating system, or programming language was capable of handling Chinese character input or output ...

Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name – in English-language journals in which Mandarin is represented in the Latin alphabet – was challenging when it ...