# China Daily 2017: Chinese museum offers big cash reward for identifying oracle bone characters

> China Daily, 2017. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Reports the National Museum of Chinese Writing's bounty of 100,000 yuan per accepted…

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# Chinese museum offers big cash reward for identifying oracle bone characters

China Daily, 2017.

**Unread oracle bone characters** Webpage0

## What it's used for here

Reports the National Museum of Chinese Writing's bounty of 100,000 yuan per accepted decipherment (50,000 for a disputed one resolved), with the counts then current: about 160,000 pieces, 4,000 graphs, 1,600 read.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Three accepted readings in nine years of a 100,000 yuan bounty show that the remaining graphs resist the form-chain…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTFGAHS19/three-accepted-readings-in-nine-years-of-a-100-000-yuan)

Evidence

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[The National Museum of Chinese Writing offers 100,000 yuan per newly deciphered graph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/events/EVT0DEDN7X3NANQ/the-national-museum-of-chinese-writing-offers-100-000-yuan)

EVT

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

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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China Daily (2017). Chinese museum offers big cash reward for identifying oracle bone characters. https://covid-19.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-07/23/content_30216387.htm
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[Find it at covid-19.chinadaily.com.cn](https://covid-19.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-07/23/content_30216387.htm)

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