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Have you seen these symbolic figures below? Some of the modern Chinese characters are evolved from symbolic figures, which is called "pictograms" --- they look like the thing they present or resemble the subject.
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English middle mountain rain ox tree fruit
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Pinyin zhong shan yu niu yang guo
English big bird fish fly sky water
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Pinyin da niao yu fei tian shui
 
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