Image: Shang Bronze and Oracle Script

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Description: Comparison between late Shang bronzeware characters, oracle bone script characters and modern Chinese characters: 天 (frontal depiction of a person 大 with a big head — 'heaven', 'sky') 犬 ('dog') 旅 (people 人 under a banner 㫃 — 'troop', '[to] journey') 何 (man 人 carrying a halberd 戈 — interrogative pronoun) 父 (hand 又 holding a stone (ax) 丨 — 'father') 戈 ('halberd') 正 (phonetic 丁 ‎+ semantic 止 — 'straight'; 'right'; 'proper'; '[to] correct') 韋 (footsteps 止 around an enclosure 口 — 'tanned leather')
Title: Shang Bronze and Oracle Script
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Author: Pat457
Permission: This SVG representation of an ancient script is in the public domain. The script itself predates the modern concept of copyright, and the creator of this image has released (or hereby releases) into the public domain any copyright generated by the making of the file (and grants an unconditional license to anyone, for any jurisdictions in which public-domain release is not legal). This applies internationally and for any purpose. Attribution is not required but appreciated.
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