甲骨文

oracle script / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)

Characters and words in 甲骨文

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 甲 just looks like a protest placard.

It's the first (甲) time Joan of Arc (ji) is protesting against something using a protest placard (甲). Inside of the ashram (a3), she is protesting against the many dinosaur bones (丨) lying around. She does not only have a protest placard, she also uses a microphone (曰) to deliver raging speeches.
tortoise shell and animal bones used in divination / oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
bone

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) is performing some dark rites in the space station (Ø3). She 3D printed a whole skeleton (骨) including skull (冎) and is trying to make it come alive under a full moon (月), citing from the Necronomicon.
language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a thick book.

Willy Walrus (w) wants to cook in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). The recipe book (文) is extremely greasy and Willy doesn't want it to touch anything, nor touch it. That's why he puts it into a beret (亠) so that it doesn't touch the floor, and uses pliers (乂) to turn the pages.

Words with 甲骨文

oracle script / oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script)

Sentences with 甲骨文

甲骨文 currently does not appear in any sentence.