Comparison map of digital hieroglyphics in Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Oracle Bone Inscriptions digital hieroglyphics pictures:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which is also called "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones". Hieroglyphs evolved from pictographs and are the oldest fonts. Unlike phonography, hieroglyphs belong to ideographs. It is more difficult to learn and use than phonetic symbols, but the information density is higher than phonetic symbols.

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Since the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, scholars have put forward many different names from different angles:

1. According to the written materials, its characters are engraved on tortoise shell bones, so there are names such as tortoise shell characters, tortoise version characters and tortoise shell bones characters.

2. From the point of view of the use of words, its words are used for divination records, so there are names such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Zhendivination, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, etc.

3. From the writing style, its characters are characterized by knives and pens, so there are names such as Wen Qi and Yin Qi.

4. Judging from the location where the characters were found, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was mostly unearthed in the ruins of Yin Ruins in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province, so there are Yin Ruins Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yin Ruins Shuqi and Yin Ruins, which are called Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yin Qi and Wen Qi for short.