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Chinese Characters

CHINESE CHARACTERS

机: The Character Behind Machines and the Human Mind

From ancient crossbows to modern-day robots, explore the character that connects them all

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

June 1, 2026

CHINESE CHARACTERS

修: The Character That Builds and Repairs

From your appearance to your inner world, this is the character to mastering every new year

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉), Chu Dandan (储丹丹), and Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Feb. 20, 2026

CHINESE CHARACTERS

利: The Character That Reaps Everything from Crops to Profits and Wealth

How the character for “harvest” came to symbolize gain, profit, and advantage

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉), Chu Dandan (储丹丹), and Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Dec. 9, 2025

CHINESE CHARACTERS

构: The Character That Brings Blueprints Into Reality

Mastering the word underpinning everything from imagination and creation to conceptualization and transformation

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉), Chu Dandan (储丹丹), and Liu Jue (刘珏)

Aug. 6, 2025

CHINESE CHARACTERS

育: The Character That Follows You From Birth

Explore the character that encompasses birth, nurture, and education

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Liu Jue (刘珏)

May 9, 2025

TRAVEL

Understanding Beyond Language: A Chinese Traveler in Vietnam

More than a hundred years ago, the Vietnamese stopped using a logographic script, with its characters borrowed from Chinese. But traces of the old la…

Ningyi Xi (席宁忆)

Feb. 3, 2025

CHINESE CHARACTERS

物: The Ox, the Earth, and the Infinite

How the character for “ox” evolved to encompass everything within the cosmos

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Pan Fengfan (潘风帆)

July 15, 2024

CHINESE CHARACTERS

游: Learn the Chinese Character for Journeys and Adventures

​The character 游 is for travel, imagination, and going with the flow

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Pan Fengfan (潘风帆)

April 30, 2024

CHINESE CHARACTERS

How a Character That Once Referred to Barbarians Now Represents Civility

Learn how the character 文 went from being a term for the uncivilized in ancient China to referring to literature, refinement, and culture in the mode…

Pan Fengfan (潘风帆)

Jan. 19, 2024

CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 公

A character with the public interest at heart

Huang Weijia (黄伟嘉) & Siyi Chu (褚司怡)

Oct. 6, 2022

CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 癌

The history of language around cancer

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Feb. 4, 2021

CHINESE CHARACTERS

On the Character: 抱

Embrace the history of this clingy character

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Jan. 21, 2021

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