Oracle bone script

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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.

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Image: Freehand drawing from sketch in 刘翔 (1989) 商周古文字讀本, 语文出版社 ISBN: 7-80006-238-4. . PNG created by Dylan W.H. Sung, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.