Chinese Speaking

One positive is that modern Chinese people can read and understand Chinese text from practically every dynasty in history. One misconception of non-Chinese speakers is that older forms of Chinese script such as oracle bone script, seal script, clerical script, and regular script are different writing systems that evolved from one another. That’s not the … Read more

This Chinese charater 月 could mean moon, moonlight and month. In the Chinese culture, moon could symbolize reunion, longing, purity and beauty. People usually use an adjective 皎洁 to describe the moonlight. 皎洁 could be translated as bright. And you could find that there are males and females whose first name, I mean, their given … Read more

I’ll break it down: Chinese characters seem very complex to write. Indeed, the Chinese characters are generally complicated, for example, some characters require over 40 stokes (龘). Fortunately, such characters are not that many. Further, the stroke order is unique for specific characters. The order can be applied to the new characters as well. Can … Read more

Yes, 江智 is a valid Chinese name. However, The Pinyin version of 江智 is written as Jiāng Zhì. The surname 江 could mean river. There are other people whose surname is Jiang, such as, Jiang Shuying, or 江疏影 in Chinese, an actress from mainland China, and Jiang Yiyan, or 江一燕 in Chinese, an actress from … Read more

They are called Latin or Roman characters. It were the Romans who invented the alphabet English uses, and they used it to write Latin. The Chinese type the text phonetically in Pinyin (Chinese in Roman characters). The screen then pops the appropriate hanzi (Chinese characters) which could correspond to the Pinyin text. The user then chooses … Read more

It’s been Latinized Confucius is one of the most influential Chinese philosophers. His philosophy, Confucianism, forms the basis of much of what we think of as East Asian culture. He lived in what is now modern China, between 551 and 479 BC, never having once heard the term China, been told the year, or even … Read more

My pastor and his wife are from Guangdong and immigrated to the US about 10–12 years ago. They speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, and he speaks English. He was doing some research on a missionary who had once gone to China, and as he knows I also have a theology degree, he asked me to … Read more