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There Is More Than One Chinese Language: Dictionaries for Cantonese, Teochew, Toisanese, Shanghainese, and more!

Posted on by Jason Li

A bird with a long beak and glasses reading a big thick book. Hovering near it area two browser windows and one phone screen that show different screenshots from different Chinese dictionaries

As we say in The Hanmoji Handbook, “Here’s the thing about spoken Chinese: it refers to many different languages — dozens, in fact — used by people in various parts of China, today and throughout history.” So when we discovered that the United Nations created an official, singular Chinese Language Day (celebrated annually on 4/20…

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Learning Chinese through emoji, and emoji through Chinese

Posted on by The Editor

The cover design for The Hanmoji Handbook flanked by some happy party face emoji

It’s just been two months since The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji was launched! The handbook is published by MITeen Press and authored by fellow 88 Bar contributors Jason Li and An Xiao Mina, alongside ⭐️ author Jennifer 8. Lee. What’s more, the book draws on their decade of experience writing about technology,…

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