[_nalply]

Perhaps you should consider that characters are not images but consist of distinct groups of strokes. When I learned about 20 words suddenly I realized that some of them have sub-words embedded into them.

So it's a bit more complicated.

[Izkata]

My favorite example of this, because it looks kinda silly and yet makes perfect sense (and appears to be the same between Chinese and Japanese, where I first ran across it):

木 - tree

森 - forest

[canjobear]

林 is also forest

[ithkuil]

One is natural the other one is man made (similar to many other languages discriminating between woods and forest)