# Even the expert-merged tallies leave 2,112 unread graphs of 3,763, so variant merging alone cannot remove the problem. > Even the expert-merged tallies leave 2,112 unread graphs of 3,763, so variant merging alone cannot remove the problem. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTGF070DA/even-the-expert-merged-tallies-leave-2-112-unread-graphs-of Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Unread oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)Evidence Evidence · Unread oracle bone characters # Even the expert-merged tallies leave 2,112 unread graphs of 3,763, so variant merging alone cannot remove the problem. Even the expert-merged tallies leave 2,112 unread graphs of 3,763, so variant merging alone cannot remove the problem. Suggestive0 ## What it means Key question[What are the roughly 3,000 unread oracle-bone graphs, and how many of them can ever be read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEESA0GT/what-are-the-roughly-3-000-unread-oracle-bone-graphs-and-how) 6 answers, none ahead yet **Open** unchanged Answer this evidence bears on[Unmerged variants inflate the unread count](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/answers/ANS0DEDS2J0FVE4/unmerged-variants-inflate-the-unread-count) Counts against1 for, 1 against **Still possible** unchanged ## Next steps 3 1 Download HUST-OBC (Figshare 10.6084/m9.figshare.25040543.v3), tabulate the 9,411 undeciphered classes by image count and source, and cluster them with a period-aware image-similarity merge; report how many distinct unread classes remain and how many are singletons. ~16 h [On: What are the roughly 3,000 unread oracle-bone graphs, and how many of them can ever be read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEESA0GT/what-are-the-roughly-3-000-unread-oracle-bone-graphs-and-how) **—** not judged 2 Using CHANT or Yinqi Wenyuan transcriptions, classify a random sample of 300 unread graphs by the slot they occupy in the divination formula (diviner name, ancestor, place after a hunting verb, verb, object, modifier) and estimate the share that occur only in name slots, with a confidence interval. ~24 h [On: What are the roughly 3,000 unread oracle-bone graphs, and how many of them can ever be read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEESA0GT/what-are-the-roughly-3-000-unread-oracle-bone-graphs-and-how) **—** not judged 3 Compile the list of readings accepted by the National Museum of Chinese Writing since 2016 (Jiang Yubin 2018, the 2023 batch including Zhou Zhongbing and Li Chuntao, Chen Jian and Xie Mingwen 2024) with their graphs and papers, as the held-out test set for any computational method. ~6 h [On: What are the roughly 3,000 unread oracle-bone graphs, and how many of them can ever be read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEESA0GT/what-are-the-roughly-3-000-unread-oracle-bone-graphs-and-how) **—** not judged Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes ## Sources 1 [Towards Computational Chinese Paleography](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGQBEJ1T5/towards-computational-chinese-paleography) Ma 2026 SRC ## Cite it ``` Mysteries Department. (2026). Even the expert-merged tallies leave 2,112 unread graphs of 3,763, so variant merging alone cannot remove the problem. [Evidence EVD0DEDTGF070DA]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDTGF070DA ``` Key **EVD** 0DEDTGF070DA Kind Evidence Tier Suggestive Found in [Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/sessions/SES0DEDVWXKJN4C/session-1-the-unread-oracle-bone-characters-seeded-corpus) · 31 Oct 2026 Version 1 Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history. [JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/EVD0DEDTGF070DA)