Compound ideograms are characters that are made up of two different characters. Often, you can sort of make sense of the compound ideogram why looking at the smaller characters. But, in our modern sense of logic, it's sometimes a bit confusing trying to understand why people thought of these combinations, so it's important to keep an open mind.
For example, the character 看 (look) is made up of the character 手 (hand) and 目 (eye). That's because you need to put shield you eyes with your hand to block out the sun in order to look properly!
















