His approach was inspired by the traditional approach to organizing Chinese scripts.
The street signs were in two scripts: Chinese and Arabic.
In the Chinese script, there exist several graphemes that have more than one written representation.
These styles are intrinsically linked to the history of Chinese script.
The character is often written in the traditional Chinese script.
The script (the way it was written) came from the Chinese script.
At the beginning of the current era, the Chinese script was only writing system available in East Asia.
Its proponents hoped one day to establish it as a writing system for a reformed Chinese script.
That nicely fit into the Chinese script of talking up sports while shutting down politics.
There are more than 40,000 characters in Chinese script.