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.
There are over 100,000 Chinese characters recorded in the most advanced Mandarin Chinese dictionaries. New Chinese symbols are developed all the time, so the amount of Chinese characters never stops increasing. Pinyin is a way to write Mandarin Chinese with the Roman alphabet. In Chinese, pinyin literally means spelled sound. Pinyin is used in most Chinese language institutes to teach Mandarin as a second language. It's a way to read Chinese without having to know the characters.