Adopting a character's ancient form or a self-explanatory character or associative compound (ideographic character), e.g., 众for 眾 (zhong, "crowd"), 从for 從 (cong, "follow") and 网 (wang, "net") for 網.
七、採用古象形、指示、會意字：如三人成「眾」（众），雙人為「從」（从），網（网）等。