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'''Oracle bone script''' ({{zh-cpl|c=甲骨文|p=jiǎgǔwén|l=shell bone writing}}) are incised characters found on [[cattle|ox]] [[scapula]]e and [[tortoise]] [[plastron]]s ([[oracle bone]]s) thought to be the earliest [[Chinese character]]s.
[[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 bones and script were used in the practice of [[scapulomancy]]: the diviner would inscribe on the bone or shell his name, the current date of the [[sexagesimal 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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