They got very soon to the Chinese pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms, and beyond them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
One may perhaps make this development of pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms a little clearer by taking an analogous case in English. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.