Chinlingo Chinese character: 饺
When "食" and "交" are combined together, the whole character means "food eaten at the turn of the old and new year", or "food eaten before 24:00 on the New Year's Eve".
Read MoreChinlingo Chinese character: 交
In the Oracle Bone Script, "交" (jiāo) is a typical pictographic character, as it looks like a person sitting cross-legged.
Read MoreTraditional customs of Chinese Spring Festival
Senior members of the family hand out red envelopes containing cash (Chinese: 压岁钱), a form of blessing and to suppress aging and the challenges of the coming year, to junior members of the family, mostly children and teenagers.
Read MoreChina’s box office sets records during Spring Festival
Movie ticket sales in China during Spring Festival holiday, plus Valentine's Day on Sunday, hit a record high of 3.5 billion yuan, up 87.13 percent from a year earlier.
Read MoreThe differences between “不” and “没”
Both 不 and 没 can be placed in front of a verb or adjective to negate its meaning. However, it's important to learn when you must use 不 rather than 没, and vice versa.
Read MoreA Century Chinese-English Dictionary to be released
The two-volume A Century Chinese-English Dictionary is expected to be released by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House later this year.
Read MoreChina to launch gravitational wave research project
Tianqin, China's domestic gravitational wave research project initiated by the Sun Yat-sen University in July 2015, is awaiting governmental approval.
Read MoreChunwan criticized for heavy ideological messages
The gala's heavy ideological messaging and overt glorification of the military led some Chinese to remark that this year's offering was even more propagandistic than usual.
Read MoreFortune: Chinese consumers buy 46% of world’s luxuries
More than 60 percent of the consumers bought luxury products — including handbags, cosmetics and mobile gadgets — spending $116.8 billion on such goods.
Read MoreChinlingo Chinese character: 犬 and the radical ” 犭”
The character "犬" (quǎn) meant "dog" originally. It is also used as a radical in the form of " 犭", which is called "反犬旁" or "reverse dog radical" literally.
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