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The traditional etymological classification of hanzi into 6 categories: pictographs , ideograms , semantic–semantic compounds , phono-semantic compounds , phonetic loans , “derivative cognates”
Chinese characters are generally logograms, but can be further categorised based on the manner of their creation or derivation. Some characters may be analysed structurally as compounds created from smaller components, while some are not decomposable in this way. A small number of characters originate as pictographs and ideograms, but the vast majority are what are called phono-semantic compounds,... Wikipedia