Comparison between late Shang bronzeware characters, oracle bone script characters and modern Chinese characters: <br><ul><li><b>天</b> (frontal depiction of a person 大 with a big head — 'heaven', 'sky')<br></li>
<li><b>犬</b> ('dog')<br></li>
<li><b>旅</b> (people 人 under a banner 㫃 — 'troop', '[to] journey')<br></li>
<li><b>何</b> (man 人 carrying a halberd 戈 — interrogative pronoun)<br></li>
<li><b>父</b> (hand 又 holding a stone (ax) 丨 — 'father')<br></li>
<li><b>戈</b> ('halberd')</li>
<li><b>正</b> (phonetic 丁 ‎+ semantic 止 — 'straight'; 'right'; 'proper'; '[to] correct') <br></li>
<li><b>韋</b> (footsteps 止 around an enclosure 口 — 'tanned leather')</li></ul>
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2020-05-28; original file created 2016-11-03
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