{\TeX\ helps you learn Chinese character meanings!} {Alan Hoenig} {I've recently used \XeTeX\ to typeset and maintain a manuscript which develops a mnemonic technique for remembering the meanings for the 2000 most common Chinese characters. Following a brief introduction to this method, I discuss how painless \XeTeX\ makes it to typeset Chinese and English together, and how \TeX\ makes it (relatively) simple to implement this memory method in a handbook such as this. Some concluding comments emphasize aspects that are familiar to old \TeX-hands, but may be overlooked by newer users. Because \TeX\ source is \ASCII\ text (or its Unicode extension), it's easy to manage and maintain the information in these source files in a straightforward way via Perl or any other scripting language. \TeX\ coding often becomes simpler, as it's possible for Perl to make some decisions (not typesetting ones, to be sure) for you, so your \TeX\ macros have less work to do. }