Unlike English, Chinese characters are so-called square pictographs or ideographs. The following is shown as a comparative Chart of Chinese and English.

The study of Chinese character components has traditionally played a role in teaching Chinese. Although the importance of the component has never been in question,

A language, in general, consists of sentences, which are made up of words, which in turn are constructed from characters. A character can be considered as a symbol, and the geometric aspects of the symbol are discussed here as a graph.

The Chinese written system is ideographic. Each character is composed of a few differently shaped lines called “strokes” within an imaginary square.