Indeed, people often say that the Chinese write in pictures. Many believe that Chinese is a monosyllabic language, which presumably means that every word in Chinese consists of a single syllable, like ...

Microsoft recently taught its XiaoIce chatbot, a Chinese language conversational AI, how to interpret pictures as poems. We’re not sure if that counts as inspired writing, but it’s an ...

Reading in Chinese can be difficult for language learners. So ShaoLan Hsueh and a team of visual designers have created Chineasy, a new book of pictograms featuring more than 400 Chinese characters.

Learning a language can be hard work, ... The crux of the idea is that both Chinese writing and emoji are image-based forms of communication, as neither uses an alphabet.

Chinese is, simply, not an easy language for most outsiders. For many, the question is: Why bother – particularly when so many young Chinese now speak English that it's easy to find others to ...