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Of the thousands of characters found from all the bone fragments, the majority remain undeciphered. One good example is shown in fragment labeled "Oracle script for Spring". The top left character in this image has no modern Chinese character counterpart to date. One of the better known characters however is shown directly beneath it looking like an upright iscosceles triangle with a line cutting through the upper portion. This is the Oracle script character for 王 "wáng" or King.

==References==

Keightley, David N. (1978). ''Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China''. University of California Press, Berkeley. Large format hardcover, ISBN 0-520-02969 (out of print); A 1985 ppbk 2nd edition is still in print, ISBN 0520054555.

Keightley, David N. (2000). ''The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China (ca. 1200 – 1045 B.C.)''. China Research Monograph 53, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California – Berkeley. ISBN 1-55729-070-9, ppbk.

Qiú Xīguī (裘錫圭, 2000). ''Chinese Writing.'' Translation of his 文字學概論 (1988 PRC edition is in simplified Chinese; 1993 Taiwan edition is in traditional Chinese) by the late Gilbert L. Mattos (Chairman, Dept. of Asian Studies, Seton Hall University) and Jerry Norman (Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages & Literature Dept., Univ. of Washington). Early China Special Monograph Series No. 4. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. ISBN 1-55729-071-7.

Woon, Wee Lee (1987). ''Chinese Writing: Its Origin and Evolution''. Originally published by the Univ. of East Asia, Macau (no ISBN); now available through Joint Publishing, fax: [phone]; email: [e-mail]. Chinese title info: 作者: 雲惟利， 書名: 漢字的原始和演變.

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