This Chinese writing style used written characters that were simple in form.

This style blends strokes together and makes the character more rounded.

This is described as the sound of the character.

Tools used to inscribed in bones and shells.

This writing style is used different stroke thicknesses to form characters and the corners of the characters were rounded rather than coming to a “squared-off” point.

This make it easier for the government officials and clerks to write all of the incoming information.

He recognized a need for standardization in how characters were formed and their meaning.

This writing appears that the writers were beginning to use the character to represent the word for the object rather than making the character look like the object

This showed the broad topic the character represented.