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English: 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')
Date 2020-05-28; original file created 2016-11-03
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Comparison between late Shang bronzeware characters, oracle bone script characters and modern Chinese characters.

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