This particular poet ’ s insistence on making the appearance of the word conform to the actual meaning was hampered by the nature of a phonetic writing system. “ As a Chinese, I ’ m fortunate to be writing in a script which originated as pictographs, but has evolved into today ’ s modern characters in which phonetic components complement images, ” says Chang.
相較於這位詩人面對拼音文字卻妄想「形似」其義的苛求，「身為中國人多幸福，中文不僅源於象形，又因有形聲及會意的輔助而保留至今。」