3.2K views · 39 reactions | Oracle bone script was an ancestor of modern Chinese characters engraved on oracle bones—animal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination—in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writing. The vast majority, amounting to about 150,000 pieces, were found at the Yinxu site located in China’s Henan Province. This is an oracle bone character. Can you guess what it is? | CCTV | Facebook

Oracle bone script 🐢 is the oldest known form of Chinese script. They were written in a style that was ancestral to all subsequent forms of Chinese writing and have been the chief communications tool for more than 4000 years. The study of oracle bone script is an important source for understanding the development of present-day Chinese writing and remains an academic discipline in its own right. Its evolution was from pictograms to ideograms and phonograms. For example, the original character f