Grammatology

thumb|upright=1.3|right|Shakespeare's will|William Shakespeare's will, written in [[secretary hand]]

how often each letter appears on average in a written language

REDIRECT Graphemics

the traditional etymological classification of hanzi into 6 categories: pictographs (象形), ideograms (指事), semantic–semantic compounds (會意), phono-semantic compounds (形聲), phonetic loans (假借), “derivative cognates” (轉注)

Graphemics or graphematics is the linguistic study of writing systems and their basic components, i.e. graphemes.