Cuneiform went through a long evolution. In its early history, it did not relate to syllables, but to concepts, and was much similar to how the Chinese characte

Cuneiform went through a long evolution. In its early history, it did not relate to syllables, but to concepts, and was much similar to how the Chinese characters and the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs work. At some point though, some characters became used to represent syllables, and many more specific characters ceased to be used. The Ancient Egyptian writing system had a similar evolution. Not even the CCP could replace the usage of logographic characters for the Chinese languages, but the Chinese writing system inspired several other writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana and Zhuyin/Bopomofo are all derived from it. There are also several other logographic writing systems inspired by Chinese characters, for example the Tangut script.