the writing systems in china As the writing systems in china, in fact it will be more obvious in the traditional chinese writing systems. and in a traditional Chinese medical science book . the chinese writing is based on the pictographic. but as the pictographic is too complex, so it is simplified dynasties and dynasties later. but the basic rule can still be see in some characters. For example 夯: this is meaning : (work) hardly on . it is combined with 2 characters: 大= big ，力=power http://cul.shangdu.com/cul/images/Image/20087231018396877801.jpg