OracleQuest: Learn Chinese

OracleQuest teaches 500 Chinese characters through their oldest surviving forms: the oracle-bone script carved on turtle shells and ox bones in the Shang dynasty, more than 3,000 years ago. • Meet each character as a picture first: the sun, a horse, a hand, a boat. • Trace it with your finger, rebuild it from bone fragments, match it to its modern form. • Watch it change from oracle bone to bronze, seal and modern script. • Read a whole divination text laid out part by part, with the characters you have learned. • 31 chapters and 148 lessons of 3–7 minutes, with spaced review of what you find hard. • Point the camera at a carved or printed character, or pick a photo, and the app names it — entirely on your device. • Finish today's dig and unearth a fragment of one of 21 Shang artifacts. • Visit the museum: a timeline of the Shang reigns, and the artifacts you have restored. Every drawing follows one specific inscription catalogued in Academia Sinica's 小學堂 oracle-bone database, with its 《甲骨文合集》 number, and every explanation says how sure scholars are: widely accepted, probable, or still debated. Where specialists disagree the app names them — Luo Zhenyu, Wang Guowei, Guo Moruo, Yu Xingwu, Qiu Xigui — and says where each attribution was verified. Nothing is invented to make a better story. The inscriptions you read are written in the fixed Shang divination formula and say so plainly; they do not reproduce any one excavated bone. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English. No account, no ads, no tracking, works fully offline.