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The three teens also correctly identified the meanings of the words prodigious, affront and logographic.

Because they are so much more visually complex than alphabetic or syllabic systems, logographic systems might indeed follow different rules, she said.

Chinese writing is not purely logographic, nor is English writing purely alphabetic.

The report said the capability allows “conveying significant content thanks to Chinese characters’ unique logographic nature.”

Traditional Chinese writing, conceived more than two thousand years ago, is a logographic system, in which each word of the language is represented by a separate character.