Talk:Guwen

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Guwen has two meanings in Chinese. One is the really ancient scripts, namely oracle bone and early Zhou bronze, and the other is the misapplication of the term by Xu Shen in his Shuowen Jiezi. Both are common, so this page needs to be expanded to clarify this.Dragonbones 09:17, 23 March 2006 (UTC)