MindMap Gallery The glyph structure of oracle bone script
Oracle bone script is the writing system of late Shang Dynasty in China, characterized by diverse glyph structures including pictographic, ideographic, associative, and phonetic-semantic compounds. Pictographic characters mimic the shapes of objects, making them intuitive and easy to understand. Ideographic characters use abstract symbols to represent concepts. Associative characters combine multiple pictographic or ideographic characters to express new meanings. Phonetic-semantic compounds consist of a radical indicating meaning and a phonetic component indicating sound, greatly enriching the expressive power of the writing system.
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