A thorough study of the Chinese writing system can thus shed light on the way in which basic concepts were formed when the ancestors of the Modern Chinese people created the characters, and can also provide insights into the possible relations among the concepts.
based on the 540 radicals in Shuowen Jiezi 1 (Xu,121) and the framework of the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) (Niles and Pease, 2001), Chou (2005) and Chou and Huang (2010) constructed Hantology (hanzi ontology), a system pertaining to the relation of Chinese characters and their meaning clusters.