If you're studying Chinese, maybe you realized that Chinese writing works in a very similar way.

That isn’t true.

	▲	demetrius 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It kinda is? Most Classical Chinese and Egyptian words follow the principle "deficient phonetic + semantic part", it's just that Chinese characters are split into neat squares because most Classical Chinese words are exactly one syllable long. But the general principle is similar enough.