My family’s copy of the I Ching / Book of Changes has strange non-Chinese-looking characters on them. What are these?

by Lithide
Sericarpus

Do you have any more examples of this "script"? Is it on every page or just this one? And where is the book from and when was it published?

Superficially it resembles someone who knows how to write Chinese characters, imitating katakana. It's too simple to be yakja (약자, 略字).

Siantlark

You might want to post these to /r/translator as well. They might have people that could help out.