See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518 my reply to another participant in this thread. Chinese characte

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518 my reply to another participant in this thread. Chinese characters (called "Kanji" in Japanese) are very much writing out of spoken words, and not at all what was described in the article kindly submitted to open this thread. Another participant provided the definitive answer about what is going on in the report submitted here. In all human communication systems, there is recombination of basic symbols, because there has to be.