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which date to 6600 B.C.E., resemble oracle bone characters such as 目 (“eye”), and 曰 (“sun; day”); others doubt that the markings represent writing at all. ==Structure== The study of oracle bone script is ...

These characters are sketches of the object they represent. For example, 目 is an eye, and 木 is a tree. The current forms of the characters are very different from the original, and it is now hard to see the origin ...