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.
Ancient Chinese Writing History: Characters and Symbols. Ancient Chinese writing, just like modern Chinese writing, had two parts to each character, a radical symbol and a phonetic symbol. The radical symbol showed the broad topic the character represented, such as the names for wet things included the character for water.