There are some complications when Chinese characters are used to write non-Chinese languages, but in general Chinese characters correspond to sounds (one charac

There are some complications when Chinese characters are used to write non-Chinese languages, but in general Chinese characters correspond to sounds (one character per syllable). You might like this article, "The Ideographic Myth". http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ideographic_myth.html http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/ideographic_myth.html