Chinese Character has over 5000 years of development process. There are 6 formations: 1. Pictograms. 2. Ideograms. 3. Ideogrammic compounds. 4. Rebus. 5. Phono-semantic compounds. 6. Transformed cognates. And 5 major scripts: 1. Oracle bone script. 2. Bronze script. 3. Seal script. 4. Clerical script. 5. Regular script.