甲骨文出土後，名稱有一個變化過程，「甲骨文字」連稱始於抗父一九二二 年二月發表在《東方雜誌》第十九卷第三號上的〈最近二十年間中國舊學之進步〉 一文。現在通行使用的「甲骨文」術語在刊布的論著中最早使用於一九二三年， 為陸懋德發表於《清華週刊》第二九九期《甲骨文之歷史及其價值》一文。研究 甲骨文的學問逐漸成為一門專門學問，最早使用「甲骨學」術語的是聞宥先生一 九二八年發表在《民鐸雜誌》第九卷第五號上的〈甲骨學之過去與將來〉一文。 過去的認識可以據此做一些補充。

The term of Oracle-bone inscription has changed over time since the excavation of the Oracle bone. Those two words “Oracle bone" and "Scripts” linking together initially found in an article The Progress of Classical Chinese in the Last Twenty Years which was wrote by Kang Fu, published in the Oriental Magazine issue 19 No.3 in February, 1922. The term “Oracle-bone inscription”, which is nowadays used commonly by national scholars, was employed firstly by Lu Maode, who published his essay The History and Value of Oracle-bone Inscription in Tsinghua Weekly Issue No.299 in 1923. As the research of Oracle-bone inscription has gradually become a specialized discipline, the earliest scholar applying the term “study of oracle” was Wen You, publishing an article The Past and Future of Study of Oracle in MinDuo Magzine issue 9 No.5 in 1928.

甲骨文;甲骨學;早期使用;研究史

Oracle-bone inscription; Study of Oracle bone;Earliest usage;Research history