Ideographic Chinese language is one of the ancient original (source) languages that were mostly hieroglyphs from the ancient world. Chinese language is the only source language that has been used with limited changes, and influenced in various forms, for several other East Asian languages. It is one of the oldest writing systems in the world, with a history that spans thousands of years. Chinese characters, also known as logographic characters, are ideographic scripts, meaning each character represents a meaningful word or a meaningful radical part of a word. There are thousands of characters, and they can be written vertically from top to bottom or horizontally from left to right.