Hong Kong dialect

Object of pictogram design can be divided according to the expression motif:
1) natural things
2) man-made things
3) phenomena, situations or state
4) abstract idea
5) already fixed forms

Expression method has a relationship to the type of form:
1) geometric form
2) organic form
3) natural form

Other expression methods:
1) linear expression
2) curvilinear expression
3) surface expression
4) line expression
5) existence or not of frame
6) positive or negative
7) independent form
8) combined form

Other graphic elements:
- circles
- triangles
- squares
- straight lines
- curves
- surfaces and lines
- background and figure

-- 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.”

(As the old Chinese character is called pictograph 象形文字, I would like to use some of the design direction of pictogram to design the Chinese character. )