The question seems ill-formed to me. I don't know anything about Chinese characters, but I am one of those aphantasic people described in the post. There is no

The question seems ill-formed to me. I don't know anything about Chinese characters, but I am one of those aphantasic people described in the post. There is no impact on recall or access to information AFAIK, it's just that you can't generate "fake" input to your visual system. Or whatever system is used by people who can visualize things. So - I have no trouble remembering faces. I could very easily describe accurate visual details of any number of places I've visited or seen. I just don't know how / am not able to turn that into something I can "see" that is in any way analogous to actually vision.