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Line 1: '''Oracle bone script''' (甲骨文 [[pinyin]]: Jia3gu3wen2) are incised characters found on ox scapula and tortoise plastrons ([[oracle bones]]) thought to be the earliest [[Chinese characters]]. Oracle bone script is seen to develop over the several generations of [[Shang Dynasty\|Shang]] kings, so there is no single defined form of for each character. The diviner would inscribe on the bone or shell his name, the current date of the [[sexigesimal cycle]] and then inscribe two possible outcomes on the shell. Depending on how the fired object cracked, diviners would interpret the answer from them. For example:

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