Chinese Writing Systems

http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/writesys.htm
This is an interesting academic paper which examines Chinese orthography. It focus on only one of the six categories of logographs, the phonograms. It discusses the implications related to the fact that phonograms are generally formed from two components: while one suggests the meaning, the other indicates the pronunciation. By showing that chinese characters are two-dimensional abstract images, the article discusses the problems related to pattern recognition, communication of information, and abstraction.