Hong Kong dialect

Form & meaning:
1) Concreteness 具象
2) Process. Composite Concept 過程．複合概念
3) Abstraction 抽象
The shapes and meanings of concreteness and abstraction can form several different combinations.
- abrstract meaning in concrete shape
- abstract meaning in abstract shape
- abstract meaning & shape, but with concrete image
4) Arrow 矢印
5) Negation. Ban. Caution 否定．禁止．注意
6) Regionality 地域性
(The first three are most important for my Chinese typography/ pictogram design.)

Forms & words: (related to my project):
1) Supplementation 補充性
Pictogram+ words (assist)
2) Combination methods 組合
- Lining up the shapes within the sentence
- Placing the shapes on the left side or right side of the words
- Combining shapes with words
- Use shapes as background and place the words on top of them
* 3) Integration 一体化
* 4) Visualization of words 文字之視覺化

-- The above information is concluded form the book “Yukio Ota. (1993) PICTOGRAM DESIGN; Tokyo: Shuichi Watanabe and Shigeru Endo Kashiwa Bijutsu Shuppan Publishing Co., Ltd.”