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What makes this moment particularly striking is that Chinese did not originally have gendered pronouns at all. The character ...

Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

Each year, the internet gives birth to a new lexicon, one that's as fast-moving and unpredictable as the online trends that ...

It’s common to be told that filler words are bad, whether you’re in an in-person interview or chatting online, but avoiding them outright can worsen communication.

It is here that a kind of black tea was born more than 400 years ago—the grand progenitor of all of them, lapsang souchong.

Abstract: Intuitively, word representation for logographic languages like Chinese can be enhanced by its internal characteristics. Several research endeavors tried to learn Chinese word embeddings ...

Orphaned in China and adopted just before the pandemic, Chase Lovell now thrives in school, on the track and in a family that never gave up on him.

In this video, I demonstrate how to write the Chinese character 女 (nǚ), which means 'female.' I walk through both the formal ...

You may think you have an impressive vocabulary, but it’s about time to put that confidence to the test. This vocabulary quiz has 26 smart words – from ‘besotted’ to ‘facetious’, from ‘quintessential’ ...

If you are feeling dispirited at work or burned out by the general pressure of life, there is a perfect word for you: "involution." The Mandarin Chinese word for "involution" — neijuan — is now a ...