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Students choose English, oracle bone characters for entrance exam essays

A student answers his college entrance exam essay question using oracle bone script. Another student answers his high school entrance exam essay in English.

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City branding through increased literacy

Suining County, Jiangsu Province, has realized that attracting investors can be difficult when none of them can read the characters in its name.

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Simple arguments for character standards

Pan Qinglin proposes eliminating simplified characters. The Ministry of Education wants to standardize character mnemonics.

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Living with an obscure name

A woman named 马CHENG has an obscure character in her name. Her passport and rental contract are able to work with it, but predictably, the PSB has problems.

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The parts that make up a home

A real estate ad builds the character 家 using strokes from other words.

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Daily Telegraph hoaxed by spoof “character of the year” story

Telegraph suggests that intellectuals chose ‘chaos’ as China’s word of the year.

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Spring Festival wordplay

A BMW ad with numbers hidden in characters, and a Microsoft tool for making couplets.

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Characters in the public interest

A PSA spot in The Beijing News listing 100 common writing errors.

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Acceptance comes for obscure characters

New IDs are now able to handle 32 obscure characters, but 199 still remain unaddressed.

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Explicating harmony

From The Economic Observer, an analysis of the characters in “harmony” 和谐.

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