The members of Lanting Calligraphy Club are writing Chinese characters with traditional brushes.

兰亭书法俱乐部的成员们正在用毛笔书写汉字。

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Truly elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and silver with Chinese characters.

真正优雅的筷子可能是带有汉字的金银制的。

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I'd be hard-put to write it even if I wanted to - as I type this, my computer's Chinese input program suggests 57 different characters with the pronunciation bi - that of the cow is not among them.

我即便想写也困难重重——在我打字输入本文时，我电脑的中文输入法为“bi”的读音给出了57个不同的对应汉字，但是跟在“牛”后面那个并不在其中。

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Sometimes documents print out with Chinese-like characters instead of the real thing (and sadly, they still make as much as sense as the original).

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With the same wit and precision he brings to his lyrics, he fielded questions about the challenges of rhyming traditional Chinese characters (complete with a demonstration), why living in Los Angeles hasn't influenced his aesthetic (but Bali might), and his progress on a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline.

NPR: Stephin Merritt: Musical Polymath

For many Chinese the very basics of the English language, such as the characters we write with, are new.

BBC: Doing Business in China