I think vapor and doogfood are talking about two different things.
Doogfood is talking about the composition of a single kanji and how it can be broken up into smaller kanji. This was the ingenious idea of the Chinese to not create a new kanji for words or meanings that could otherwise be the combination of two or more kanji. His examples above are good to see the application of this.
Vapor is talking about, I think, the notion that in Eastern writing books are usually read from right to left, top to bottom. In this case, you would read a sentence beginning on the right page first, right most sentence, top to bottom. This is the traditional method but like all things this isn't the rule today and some Eastern writing is now done using Western convention from left to right.
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