I got a few thousand emails and a few million visitors and people started calling me 汉字叔叔 or Uncle Hanzi. I decided to move to China, but things did not go entirely smoothly. I got kicked out of China about a year later because of a visa problem, but a story by my friend Dixin Yan saved my ass and got me a job at Beijing Normal University.

2019年7月25日 · Learn to read and write simplified Chinese characters from “Uncle Hanzi”, a foreigner who has made a name for himself in China! For American Physicist, Richard Sears, memorizing Chinese characters isn’t enough. You have to …

2021年11月16日 · Sears, nicknamed Uncle Hanzi by Chinese netizens, even designed a website for his sole passion. Hanzi means Chinese characters.

2018年10月9日 · When you first hear of the title "Uncle Hanzi" (literally means "Uncle Chinese Characters"), you may find it hard to believe that it was given to an American man named Richard Sears. Sears is the founder of the "Chinese Etymology" website, spending over 20 years sorting different types of inscriptions ranging from oracle, bronze, to small seal ...

2017年9月10日 · “It’s good that a foreign uncle so loves our hanzi [Chinese characters]. As Chinese, we should do better to protect this cultural treasure.” Encouraged by the support from the public, Sears moved to China the same year, embarking on a four-year stint at Beijing Normal University, teaching physics in English.

不断涌来的邮件里甚至有网友给他起了昵称，Uncle Hanzi（汉字叔叔）。 他喜欢这个新名字。 2011年1月13日，一个无意中发现汉字字源网的中国网民发了这么一条微博：「这个人叫Richard Sears。

他用了20年时间整理甲骨文、金文、小篆等字形并放到网上，输入汉字就可查看字形，感动中国网友，并被称之为“汉字叔叔”。 2012年“知识中国”年度人物。 2013年7月6日，“汉字叔叔”作为特邀嘉宾出席第12届汉语桥世界大学生中文比赛开幕式。 2020年12月，获外国人永久居留身份证。 理查德·西尔斯（Richard Sears），男，出生于1950年，“汉字与词源”网站的创办者。 他用了20年整理甲骨文、金文、小篆等字形并放到网上，输入汉字就可查看字形，感动中国网友。 理查德·西 …

2021年5月25日 · The American "Uncle Hanzi" has been obsessed with research on the etymology of Chinese characters for over fifty years. He explores the stories behind Chinese characters and shares them with the world. His nickname “Hanzi” means Chinese characters.

2014年5月2日 · Now, Sears has more than 20,000 followers on the micro blog Sina Weibo, and is called "Uncle Hanzi" in China where he has become something of a celebrity. Sears spent 10 years learning Chinese, 20 years establishing a database of Chinese characters (hanzi in pinyin), and another 10 years setting up his etymology website.

2015年11月2日 · Richard Sears, known as Uncle Hanzi in China, was standing in line for security check at Ningbo airport Friday when he took out two cans of beer, a can of coke and a bottle of water before asking people around him to help gulp them down. Uncle Hanzi offered a French passenger, who was standing next to him in line, a can of his choice.