Two-year-old Trevor Pang Hyin Hing’s Chinese name shares the same second character as that of his younger brother Tyler Pang Hyin-En, who is six months old.
For those of us who teach and research the Chinese language, it is often difficult to describe how the Chinese characters function in conveying meaning and sound, and it’s always a particular challenge to explain how the writing system differs from the alphabetic systems we are more familiar with. The issues are complex and multi-layered, and have important implications for