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The earliest forms of Chinese writing were pictographs where the person basically tried to draw the different items he saw. Eventually, the pictographs became more stylized and looked less like the object and were instead easier to draw repetitively. Eventually, the various parts of these more stylized pictographs were recombined in different ways to represent more abstract ideas and concepts, leading to the modern conception of ideographs. Chinese is still written with ideographs, but these have changed substantially over the last 2000 years.

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