Pinyin is a system of romanizing Chinese characters, a.k.a. writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet. For example, the word for hello, 你好, would be written “nǐ hǎo.” Pinyin is much ...

Since dozens of Chinese characters can share the same latinized ... “If you type in nihao [‘hello’ in Chinese] or something like that, [the app] can answer that without having to use the ...

The Chinese language is difficult, and perhaps no one has struggled more with it than the inkers and bearers of America’s Chinese-character tattoos. Most infamous was probably the tattoo on ...