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Oracle bone script

The 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 oracle bones, usually either the shoulder bones of oxen or the plastrons of turtles. The writings themselves mainly record the results of official divinations carried out on behalf of the Late…

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Child systems
Seal script
Direction
Top-to-bottom vertically
Languages
Old Chinese
Period
c. 1250 – c. 1050 BC
Script type
Logographic

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Oracle bone script

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Edges51
Triples65
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.038462
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Oracle bone script

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related to Structure and function · 14
Oracle bone script → As William, Boltz, By, Chinese, Despite, From, Loangraphs, Old Chinese, One, Qiu, Shang, Similarly, This, Without
related to Name · 11
Oracle bone script → American, Chalfant, Chinese, Early Chinese Writing, English, Frank, In, The, This, Yinxu, Yīnxū
related to Style · 11
Oracle bone script → Along, Comparing, Han, It, Late Shang, Qin, Shang, The, Venetian, Western Zhou, Zhou
related to Oraculology · 9
Oracle bone script → Chinese Upper Antiquity, In, It, Oracle, Oraculology, The, This, Wang Yuxin, Zhou Yitong
related to Origins · 9
Oracle bone script → Anyang, BC, China, However, It, Many, Neolithic, Sets, Shang
related to Computer encoding · 5
Oracle bone script → Chinese, However, Tertiary Ideographic Plane, Unicode, Unicode Plane
Child systems · 1
Oracle bone script → Seal script
Direction · 1
Oracle bone script → Top-to-bottom vertically
Languages · 1
Oracle bone script → Old Chinese
Period · 1
Oracle bone script → c. 1250 – c. 1050 BC

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oracle bone inscriptions script shang chinese characters writing bones character period bc zhou late found forms graphs yinxu first dynasty

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Oracle bone scriptChild systemsSeal script1.00infobox
Oracle bone scriptDirectionTop-to-bottom vertically1.00infobox
Oracle bone scriptLanguagesOld Chinese1.00infobox
Oracle bone scriptPeriodc. 1250 – c. 1050 BC1.00infobox
Oracle bone scriptScript typeLogographic1.00infobox
Oracle bone scriptis aoldest attested form of written Chinese0.90text
Oracle bone scriptrelated to Computer encodingUnicode0.60section
Oracle bone scriptrelated to Computer encodingHowever0.60section
Oracle bone scriptrelated to Computer encodingUnicode Plane0.60section
Oracle bone scriptrelated to Computer encodingTertiary Ideographic Plane0.60section
Oracle bone scriptrelated to Computer encodingChinese0.60section
Oracle bone scriptrelated to NameThe0.60section

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