The character biáng requires 62 total strokes to write and contains a 馬 horse, 月 moon,刂 knife and 心 heart plus other radicals. Biáng doesn’t exist in Modern Standard Mandarin which…
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The Zi Crew: Philosophers who blew everyone’s mind The man we call “Laozi” (老子, Lǎozǐ), known in the Western world as Lao-Tzu or Lao-Tse, didn’t feel the urge to document…
CS wishes you all a Happy Valentine’s Day! 情人节快乐! Qíng rén jié kuài lè! Here are two Chinese phrases for your next romantic interlude. Why not give them a go?
Why do things the hard way if you don’t need to? Learning a language is not a “one size fits all” endeavor.
China’s Zi Crew personified the Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家, zhūzǐ bǎijiā) era of fertile intellectual expansion. For more than three centuries, as the celebrated Zhou Dynasty and its Spring…
According to the Beijing Chinese Character Study Bureau, there are exactly 91,251 Chinese characters in use today, from which one could derive an almost infinite number of words and expressions....
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The Chinese language is ripe with delicious ambiguities. One of the most debatable of all is the word miàn zi 面子 meaning “face” or dignity or reputation, but such definitions somehow…
