The Decipherment of a Variant Form of the Character Zhen ( 朕 ) in Oracle Bone Inscriptions

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The Decipherment of a Variant Form of the Character Zhen ( 朕 ) in Oracle Bone Inscriptions

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Abstract

The graph

from the sentence

xing dong zhi he (

行东至河 ) in Oracle Bone Inscriptions has never been deciphered by previous scholars. I explained the graph

as zhen ( 朕 ), and the justification is as follows, the upside constituent

was zhou ( 舟 ), and the bottom part

was the abbreviated form of

.There were a few graphs of

（朕）written as

（朕）in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The positions of graphic components were changing all along, and the structures could be juxtaposed structure or superposition method, thus the juxtaposed structure

（朕）could also be written as the superposition method

（朕）.The character style of this Oracle Bone Inscriptions entry belongs to the category of Shi-group in the early period of Wu Ding with the characteristics of larger font size and round-fluent strokes. This entry is precious as it is the earliest historical material which recorded the Yellow River, the content is Shang Wang said: I would go east to the Yellow River.

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Oracle Bone Inscriptions zhen ( 朕 ) variant form decipher

Published: 26 July 2019

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