Keywords: Shang Bronze and Oracle Script.png en Comparison between late Shang bronzeware characters and oracle bone script characters <b>天</b> full-frontal depiction of a man 大 with big head - 'heaven' 'sky' <b>犬</b> 'dog' <b>旅</b> people 人 under a banner 㫃 - 'troop' 'to journey' <b>何</b> man 人 carrying a halberd 戈 - interrogative pronoun <b>父</b> hand 又 holding a stone ax 丨 - 'father' <b>戈</b> 'halberd' <b>正</b> phonetic 丁 + semantic 止 - 'straight'; 'right'; 'proper'; 'to correct' and <b>韋</b> footsteps 止 around an enclosure 口 - 'tanned leather' own ; character drawings modelled on actual surviving examples as found in http //humanum arts cuhk edu hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/ http //www chineseetymology org/ and http //www shufazidian com/ Pat457 2016-11-03 PD-ancient-script Chinese characters Oracle bone script Bronze script Oracle bone script characters Bronze script characters Regular script Shang Dynasty Cc-zero |