Chinese characters are pictures - The example of the Chinese character for bird: 鸟

The pictographic myth of Chinese characters. This is what the video is debunking. When you look at the character for tiger or elephant, in Chinese 虎 and 象 respectively, you should be able to recognizing the tiger and the elephant in them. But this doesn't happen. And this also the case for the Chinese character 鸟，meaning bird. What initially was an easily recognizable picture of a thing, during a thousands-year old evolution became changed beyong recognition. Thus the pictographic myth of Chinese characters is debunked in just a matter of seconds. Why does this myth persist?

Chinese characters are pictures - The example of the Chinese character for bird: 鸟 #chinesewriting