By the end of the Shang dynasty, the Chinese had developed a form of writing in which each character represented a morpheme, which is the smallest meaningful unit of language. This writing system used logograms, where each character corresponds to a word or a concept rather than sounds. This early form of Chinese writing, found on oracle bones, laid the foundation for the modern Chinese writing system.
By the end of the Shang dynasty, the Chinese had developed a form of writing in which each character represented a
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