> Nothing in it makes sense to me Understandable, because it was based on how it sounded, not based on the meaning of the compound characters. So it only makes

> Nothing in it makes sense to me Understandable, because it was based on how it sounded, not based on the meaning of the compound characters. So it only makes sense for Vietnamese people. For example, from this wikipedia image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_vocabulary#/media/File:VietnameseVocabComparsion.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_vocabulary#/me... The first word "núi" (mountain) is made up of 山 and 內, 山 is the meaning of the word, and 內 is how it (mostly) sounds. Without knowing Vietnamese it is impossible to guess the meaning.