High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! All Chinese characters are logograms, but there are several derivative types. These include a handful which derive from pictograms (?? pinyin: xiangxing) and a number which are ideographic (?? zhishi) in origin, but the vast majority originated as phono-semantic compounds (?? xingsheng). In older literature, Chinese characters in general may be referred to as ideograms, due to the misconception that characters represented ideas directly, whereas in fact they do so only through association with the spoken word. This article therefore covers the origin of these logographic characters, not their current function in the Chinese writing system. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких информационных ссылок, не...