1 The Aboriginal word gangurru described the Grey Kangaroo. 2  It's an urban myth that the name kangaroo is the result of a misunderstanding, and developed from an Aboriginal word meaning I don't know, or I don't understand.  The name kangaroo is used broadly to include all species within the super-family of macropods.
If you do not see the characteristic shapes of Korean Hangul or Japanese hiragana or katakana, then you are probably looking at Chinese. Chinese writing has complicated characters called hanzi in Chinese, kanji in Japanese, and hanja in Korean.
Evidence of Chinese writing first appears around 2000 B.C. as pottery marks. The shell-and-bone characters represented writing they were not pictures. The Shang symbols compare favorably with ancient Manding symbols. Although their are different contemporary pronunciations for these symbols they have the same meaning and shape.