中秋节快乐！Today China celebrates its second most important festival after Chinese New Year: the Mid-Autumn Festival (literally, 中 [zhōng] means “middle” and 秋 [qiū] means “autumn”). It is also known as the Moon Festival.
These components, called radicals (部首 [bùshǒu]), help you recognize patterns in hanzi and memorize vocabulary more logically.
The card game Dou Dizhu 斗地主 [dòu dìzhǔ] is one of the most popular pastimes in China.
Zhuyin Fuhao (注音符號), also known as Bopomofo, is a phonetic system used to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese. Unlike pinyin, it uses its own symbols rather than Latin letters.
The Youth Chinese Test (YCT) is an international standardized test designed to assess the Chinese language proficiency of young learners in primary and secondary school.
In Chinese, we can indicate the past tense with either the particle 了 [le] or the structure 是……的 [shì……de].
One of the first things we learn when studying Chinese is how to say "and" or "with". But we soon find there are actually three different words that all seem to mean the same thing: 和 [hé], 跟 [gēn], and 与 [yǔ].
Unlike in many Western countries, religion in China is not a unified, fully defined phenomenon. Instead, it’s a mix of beliefs, cultural practices, and spirituality.
Did you know that many modern Chinese customs have roots over 2,000 years old? Confucianism still shapes how people think, learn, govern, and relate to one another in China. Discover more here.
How do you tell the time in Chinese? Learn how to use 点, 半, 刻 and more with clear explanations and practical examples.
