Neither Chinese punctuation standard requires full-width marks
Mainland China's punctuation standard and Taiwan's handbook measure marks in character cells and never require full-widt...
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Chinese typing speed in WPM, and why dividing by five gets it wrong
Hong Kong's civil service asks for 15 Chinese characters a minute, which looks tiny beside English speeds only because t...
The most common Chinese typos are homophones
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What a seal script converter can and cannot do
Seal script got its own Unicode block on 16 September 2026 — 11,328 characters — and a converter will still leave 的, th...
Why Hong Kong place names don't follow Jyutping
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How Zhuyin (bopomofo) maps to pinyin, and where a simple chart goes wrong
Zhuyin's 37 symbols line up with pinyin letters, so a chart gets you most of the way. But against every syllable in Taiw...
Converting one passage between mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong punctuation
Taiwan centres its full stops and the mainland puts them bottom left, yet it is the same character. Here is one passage...
Why common Cantonese characters like 嘅 and 咗 could not be typed in Big5
Eleven of the most-used written Cantonese characters, including 嘅, 咗 and 喺, could not be typed in Big5, the tradition...
Why a Chinese character that works in GBK can break in Big5
GB2312, GBK and Big5 write the same Chinese character with different bytes, and none of them can write every character....
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