# OracleQuest: Learn Chinese — Oracle bone script & hanzi

> Oracle bone script & hanzi (iPhone/iPad app by Yinhuan Yuan.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/oraclequest-learn-chinese/id6813274512 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yinhuan Yuan](https://appshunter.io/developer/6811600067)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: $4.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 29 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-10-04
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/oraclequest-learn-chinese/id6813274512/reviews.md

## What is OracleQuest?

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.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.2 — 2026-09-23

No release notes.

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