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Oracle bone characters may have components which differ in later characters, for instance the character for Autumn 秋 now appears with 禾 as one component and fire 火 as another component. From the Oracle script, one sees that an ant -like creature is carved instead.

Of the thousands of characters found from all the bone fragments, the majority of them remainsremain undeciphered. One good example is shown in fragment labled "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 iscocelesiscosceles triangle with a line cutting through the upper portion. This is the Oracle script character for 王 "wang2" or King.

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