The answer to how to write the word "天" in oracle bone inscriptions is as follows:

Heaven, oracle bone inscriptions add a circle on the head of a person (big) to indicate the space above the head. Some oracle bone inscriptions write "big" as "husband", and some bronze inscriptions change the "two" (space above the earth) in the oracle bone inscriptions to "one" (the beginning, the state of chaos), highlighting the meaning of "space". The seal script continues the gold script shape.

1. Oracle bone inscriptions

Oracle bone inscriptions, also known as "deeds", "oracle bone inscriptions", "Yinxu inscriptions" or "tortoise shell and animal bone inscriptions", are the earliest discovered in China so far. The earliest mature writing system is the source of Chinese characters and the root of China's excellent traditional culture. The remains of oracle bone inscriptions from the early Shang Dynasty were mainly found in Zhengzhou Shangcheng, and those from the late Shang Dynasty were represented by the Yin Ruins in Anyang.

Oracle bone inscriptions are the most important writing in the late Shang Dynasty. Archaeological discoveries have found a large number of oracle bones, totaling more than 100,000 pieces. The contents are mainly divination records of the Shang royal family, and can also be seen from the tribes of many states. Emblem name. Oracle bone inscriptions contain approximately 4,000 characters, reflecting the basic composition of the written symbol system. Compared with the stereotyped ancient Chinese character symbol system established in "Shuowen Jiezi", oracle bone inscriptions already have various types of Chinese character configurations, as well as the "four styles" of the traditional "Six Books".

That is, pictograms, meanings, meanings, and phonetic sounds, indicating that in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties, Chinese characters represented by oracle bone inscriptions had basically established their configuration methods, and the configuration system had gradually developed and matured. It can be seen from the aspects of glyph composition, degree of symbolization, writing form and usage function that the oracle bone inscriptions of the late Shang Dynasty are a writing symbol system that has experienced a long period of development, has a mature structure and complete functions. A complete text sample of the mature stage system.

In October 2017, Oracle was selected into the "Memory of the World Register". As of November 2022, a total of about 150,000 pieces of oracle bone inscriptions have been discovered in China, and more than 35,000 pieces have been excavated by scientific archeology, with the number of individual characters exceeding about 4,000.

2. History of development

Oracle bone inscriptions are named after being engraved and written on tortoise shells and animal bones. They are handwriting circulated by the Yin and Shang Dynasties; the content records Pan Geng’s migration from Yin to Zhou The inscriptions written in the 270th year of the king's reign are the earliest written writings. The Yin Shang Dynasty had three major characteristics, namely, trusting history, drinking alcohol, and worshiping ghosts and gods. Because of this, these tortoise shells, which determine many things such as fishing, conquest, and agriculture, can be seen again in later generations and become important materials for the study of Chinese characters.