Chinese, the craziest language

i think Chinese is one of the most complicated language ever, especially in written form with thousands of characters and the million of strokes involved. i still wonder if there's any set logic on Chinese sentence structure. I guess it's not with the sentence structure but how Chinese characters can be placed in so many different ways and combinations that it's hard for learners of Chinese to distinguish whether this character is to be read with the next character, the one ahead, or the next 3 characters. the Chinese language is like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle.