Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC. Inscriptions were made by carving characters into...
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carved onto the bone or shell in oracle bone script using a sharp tool. Intense heat was then applied with a metal rod until the bone or shell cracked...
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Chinese bronze inscriptions (redirect from Bronzeware Script)
inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts, preceded by the oracle bone script. For the early Western Zhou to early...
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family of scripts includes writing systems used to write various East Asian languages, that ultimately descend from the oracle bone script invented in...
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Chinese characters (redirect from Chinese script)
durable than bronzes or oracle bones, and have not been preserved. Bronze script As early as the Shang, the oracle bone script existed as a simplified...
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Chinese calligraphy (section Oracle bone script)
[citation needed] Oracle bone script was an early form of Chinese characters written on animals' bones. Written on oracle bones—animal bones or turtle plastrons—it...
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Yinxu (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
kings and saw the emergence of oracle bone script, the earliest known Chinese writing. Along with oracle bone script and other material evidence for...
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also include the oracle bone script (c. 1250 – c. 1000 BCE). The term deliberately contrasts the small seal script, the official script standardized throughout...
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most ancient oracle bone script as well as various other scripts older than seal script found on Zhou dynasty bronze inscriptions, seal script is the oldest...
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aerial photography Oracle Team USA, an American yacht racing syndicate Internet Oracle, a collaborative humor website Oracle bone script, an ancient form...
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