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Lost pronunciation in oracle bones: AI traces the mystery of ancient Chinese characters

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  1. The ancient pronunciation of oracle bone script has been lost, and AI is now being used as a tool to trace this mystery by analysing character shapes, context and fragment matching, and by comparing Chinese readings.
  2. Chinese research institutes and IT companies are applying AI models to Shang Dynasty oracle bones from more than 3,000 years ago to infer the meaning of undeciphered characters.
  3. The Dongyi origin theory, which holds that the element 'hun' in words such as 'wind' is a trace of an ancient pronunciation, is a hypothesis rather than an established fact, and AI is a tool for testing it.

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Lost pronunciation in oracle bones: AI traces the mystery of ancient Chinese characters

Read the full article (machine translation) → Original article (Korean): 갑골문 속 사라진 발음, AI가 고대 한자음의 미스터리를 추적

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