The existence of Chinese writing is proved by four million years old texts. It suffered a long evolution in its graphical forms especially with the introduction of the writing plume; it confend an angular aspect to the signs.
The Chinese writing was ideograph and at the beginning traduced ideas and not sounds. Meanwhile to traduce abstracts word which graphic translation was impossible they appealed to concrete object ideograms. It corresponds to a word with the same sound in the language, by this way a phonetic element entered in the ideograph writing.