How to Understand Traditional Chinese Script

Early writing systems had a finite number of symbols that were essentially in one to one correspondence with objects or concepts. These are often known as pictograms or hieroglyphics. Such a system isn't universal, because at any given point in time there would be objects or concepts outside of that system which could not be represented by that symbol. So we have alphabets where no new symbols need to be invented, we just rearrange the existing ones to express anything we like. It doesn't mean that it's impossible using language. It simply means we just don't know how problems are soluble. So one day we will know how to do this.