More and more people begin to take interest in Oriental culture, especially in Oriental alphabet. Character is a unique symbiosis of painting and writing, often possessing deep philosophic meaning.
Ideography is a writing system using symbols for defying objects and definitions instead of letters that correspond with letters. The peak of ideographic development became ideography writing system. Ideographic clues are some kind of graphical elements or simple characters of Chinese writing that is part of the complicated characters. They can serve as a meaningful or phonetic attribute, and are often called radicals.
Writing hieroglyphs is not that complicated as it may seem at first. Japanese hieroglyphs originate from the Chinese ones, for the Japanese writing was once borrowed from the Chinese language. If in Japanese a single hieroglyph can denote both a separate word the word collocations, in Chinese every hieroglyph stands for one word only.
Calligraphy is the art of deliberate hieroglyphic corruption and transformation in order to reach natural harmony.