# Yiran Rex Ma 2026: Towards Computational Chinese Paleography

> Yiran Rex Ma, 2026. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Position paper mapping digital resources and methods for oracle bone, bronze and bamboo…

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# Towards Computational Chinese Paleography

Yiran Rex Ma, 2026.

**Unread oracle bone characters** Articledoi: **[10.48550/arXiv.2601.06753](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06753)** 0

## What it's used for here

Position paper mapping digital resources and methods for oracle bone, bronze and bamboo scripts; gives the count 3,763 catalogued graphs, 1,273 deciphered, 378 debated, 2,112 undeciphered, and judges generative hints such as OBSD of limited use to experts.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[A 2026 survey reports 2,112 of 3,763 catalogued graphs unread and states that most are proper nouns such as personal…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTF0NZRNA/a-2026-survey-reports-2-112-of-3-763-catalogued-graphs)

Evidence

EVD

[Even the expert-merged tallies leave 2,112 unread graphs of 3,763, so variant merging alone cannot remove the problem.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTGF070DA/even-the-expert-merged-tallies-leave-2-112-unread-graphs-of)

Evidence

EVD

[OBI-Bench finds the best of 23 large multimodal models deciphering at about the level of untrained people, and EVOBC's…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTJ2A3HW3/obi-bench-finds-the-best-of-23-large-multimodal-models)

Evidence

EVD

[The unread oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)

The mystery article

MYS

[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)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Yiran Rex Ma (2026). Towards Computational Chinese Paleography. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.06753
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[Find it at arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06753)

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**SRC** 0DEDGQBEJ1T5

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31 Oct 2026, for editors

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