Chinese Character Handwriting Skills Face Erosion Amidst Digital Dominance

Chinese Character Handwriting Skills Face Erosion Amidst Digital Dominance
A man checks his phone while resting in a shopping mall in Beijing on July 18, 2023. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
Cathy Yin-Garton
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Students participated in a preliminary round of a Chinese character dictation competition at a university in Wuhan on Oct. 13, where a freshman scored only two out of 100 and jokingly called himself an “illiteracy” college student.

During the test, the student, identified only as Liu, struggled to handwrite characters and resorted to homophones, i.e., words that sound the same but have different meanings.

Kane Zhang is a reporter based in Japan. She has written on health topics for The Epoch Times since 2022, mainly focusing on Integrative Medicine. She also reports on current affairs related Japan and China.
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