That's right, more properly stated, each character represents a morpheme in Classical Chinese, with a few exceptions for bimorphemic words like 蝴蝶 which are pro

That's right, more properly stated, each character represents a morpheme in Classical Chinese, with a few exceptions for bimorphemic words like 蝴蝶 which are probably of foreign origin. There are also a few modern characters in informal use which indicate multiple syllables/morphemes like 圕 for "túshūguǎn".