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...

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...

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...

also include the oracle bone script (c. 1250 – c. 1000 BCE). The term deliberately contrasts the small seal script, the official script standardized throughout...

family of scripts includes writing systems used to write various East Asian languages, that ultimately descend from the oracle bone script invented in...

[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...

archaeological work. Instead, scripts evolved gradually, with several coexisting in a given area. As early as the Shang, the oracle bone script existed as a simplified...

fully-fledged system of writing". The earliest known body of writing in the oracle bone script dates much later to the reign of the late Shang dynasty king Wu Ding...

science. In the narrow sense, the study of oracle bone script is limited to the study of oracle bone script itself, and it is a discipline of paleography...

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...

the Yellow River valley. These symbols have been compared to the oracle bone script—the earliest known forms of Chinese characters, first attested c. 1200...

earliest forms of characters, including Shang-era oracle bone script and the Zhou-era bronze scripts, is often necessary for reconstructing their historical...

aerial photography Oracle Team USA, an American yacht racing syndicate Internet Oracle, a collaborative humor website Oracle bone script, an ancient form...

logo is the Chinese character for "lightning" or "electricity" in oracle bone script. The brand's first model, the U8 plug-in hybrid full-size SUV, was...

character, but there is no additional bird shape. Seal script evolved from oracle bone script,[citation needed] and diverged into different forms in the...

China. It is the source of the archeological discovery of oracle bones and oracle bone script, which resulted in the identification of the earliest known...

Zhou forms, or even oracle bone characters. Due to this imprecision, modern scholars tend to avoid using the term large seal script. There were several...

discovery of the meaning of texts written in ancient or obscure languages or scripts. In a few cases, a multilingual artifact has been necessary to facilitate...

sage-king during the late 3rd millennium BCE, which predates the oracle bone script used during the late Shang dynasty—the oldest known form of writing...

and author. He was the first Western scholar to study Shang dynasty Oracle bone script, the earliest form of Chinese writing. In the years following his...

The regular script is the newest of the Chinese script styles, popular starting from the Three Kingdoms period c. 200 CE, and stylistically mature by the...

period were written primarily in Literary Chinese using Hanja as its primary script. Therefore, a good working knowledge of Chinese characters is still important...

with several early forms of Chinese characters, including Oracle Bone, Bronze, and Seal scripts. Throughout the Old Chinese period, there was a close correspondence...

old-fashioned iroha ordering and the more prevalent gojūon ordering. After the 1900 script reform, which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana, the hiragana syllabary...

sound or whole syllable in the Japanese language, unlike kanji regular script, which corresponds to a meaning (logogram). Apart from the five vowels,...

mammal bones. Oracle bone script was a writing system used in Ancient China based on inscriptions in bones. Its name originates from oracle bones, which were...

Bronze Age. He was best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script. His work changed the way that many Sinologists viewed Shang...

Cursive script (Chinese: 草書, cǎoshū; Japanese: 草書体, sōshotai; Korean: 초서, choseo; Vietnamese: thảo thư), often referred to as grass script, is a script style...

The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC)...

Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana...