Chinese Written Language Puns

Thank you for the overwhelming responses. I can’t get to all of you because I didn’t expect this to be as massive of a question as it turned out to be, so instead I’ll give all of you who offered explanations a wide thanks

Like, if a Chinese or Japanese person were making a drawing that just happened to include a square, would they draw it with that same order, as if it were ロ?

I saw a cool visual gif or video not too long ago that showed how different language letters came to be developed based on their writing tools. It was probably here on Reddit.

Languages that used brushes (like Chinese) have strokes, languages written with pens have straight lines (Latin), written on leaves are curved, etc.

The gif would first show the medium being used (brush, pen, stone), this tool writing stuff, then show the results of the current language (Chinese, English) etc.

What many people outside of East Asia may not know is that Korea and Japan were heavily influenced by the Chinese. This is why these countries are grouped in the Sinosphere cultural area. Part of this includes borrowing and using Chinese characters to write their languages. Vietnamese used to be written like this in the past before using Latin alphabet!

An important to thing to understand about Chinese writing system is that it is a logogram. This is not the same as an alphabet like Latin or Cyrillic. Every symbol will represent a thing (e.g. a noun, verb, or a phrase). So thus, the Chinese characters that express a thing can be shared in Chinese languages, Korean, and Japanese.

That being said, would it be possible for a speaker of any of the languages to interpret and understand the writing of the other ones?

I find it hard to believe that every other language in the world uses an alphabet or syllaphebet.

I'd love to see some examples of everyday handwriting as well!

I don't know who taught Lawrence to read. Who knows? I don't, no?

Hu taught Lawrence Turead, Hu knows.

Languages other than the "English" alphabet

Surely they don't have words for every possible complicated scientific word?

Why have some languages evolved to be picture languages, whereas western languages are usually based on syllables? It can't be random. There's got to be a certain historical reason for it.

I'm sorry if the term "picture" language is incorrect, I tried to think of a better way to describe Kanji/Trad. Chinese and this is the best I came up with. :/

I'm a hearing person, currently studying Libras(Brazilian sign language) in college and I know it is hard for deaf people to understand the logic behind most western languages because they are sound-based. I was wondering if, with languages such as Chinese or Japanese(kanji), they wouldn't have such an issue because they have symbols for words, whereas the sound is secondary. I was also wondering that if deaf people created a written language they would make something similar, i.e. a symbol system. Thoughts?

No joke. Valve really has to give us option so the guide is shown based on your country. This is my guide. Nothing special but just some tips and tricks. I can understand steam community is toxic especially when it's famous game, but there are obviously zero intention to show this on english or other language based countries since they got much better guides than mine, yet these trolls keep coming nowhere just to post racism comments. Needless to say, reporting them does not work.

If anybody know solution not to keep me coming back to remove racism comments, I appreciate.