The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC)...

the large seal script and the small seal script. Without qualification, seal script usually refers to the small seal script—that is, the lineage which evolved...

include the oracle bone script (c. 1250 – c. 1000 BCE). The term deliberately contrasts the small seal script, the official script standardized throughout...

The bird-worm seal script (Chinese: 鳥蟲篆) is a type of ancient seal script originating in China. The Chinese character 鳥 (niǎo) means "bird" and the character...

script is a highly stylised form of Chinese calligraphy derived from small seal script, using convoluted winding strokes aligned to horizontal and vertical...

been made to reform the script, including the promotion of small seal script by the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE). Clerical script, which had matured by the...

Imperial Seal of the Mongols is a seal (tamgha) that was used by the Mongols. The imperial seals, bearing inscriptions in Mongolian script or other scripts, were...

"large seal" (大篆 dàzhuàn) to refer to the script of this period. This term dates back to the Han dynasty, when (small) seal script and clerical script were...

Vietnamese alphabet in parallel with both chữ Hán and chữ Nôm characters. The seal script is the formal system of character forms that evolved in the state of...

The regular script is the newest of the major Chinese script styles, emerging during the Three Kingdoms period c. 230 CE, and stylistically mature by the...

(c. 309 BCE). In the Qin dynasty, the official script was the small seal script. The clerical script was associated with low social status, and, although...

States) Slip script (Chu) Slip script (Qin) Shuowen Small seal script Clerical script Regular script (traditional) Semi-cursive script Cursive script Regular...

the "big seal script". The traditional narrative, as also attested in the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary (c. 100 AD), is that the Qin small seal script that would...

evolve into writing styles of the Western Zhou period, and then into the seal script within the state of Qin. It is known that the Shang people also wrote...

bone script character Bronze script character Large seal script character Small seal script character Oracle bone script character Bronze script character...

Harappa, the use of the script largely ceased as the use of inscribed seals ended around c. 1900 BCE; however, the use of the Indus script may have endured for...

imperial seal bore the inscription Yu qian zhi bao "Seal in front of the Emperor" (御前之寶 pinyin: Yùqián zhī bǎo), written in folded seal script and was...

The Khitan small script (Chinese: 契丹小字; pinyin: qìdān xiǎozì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language. It was used during...

oracle bone script, Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE) bronzeware script and large seal script, and Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE) small seal script. These oracle...

traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE, with the sets of forms and norms more...

the graphs on old steles – some dating from 200 BCE, and in the small seal script (小篆 xiǎo zhuàn) style – have been preserved and can be viewed in museums...

March 2020. It also is tentatively allocated for Oracle Bone script and Small Seal Script. As of Unicode 16.0[update], the TIP comprises the following...

imperial standard the small seal script which had already been in use in Qin. In this process, variant glyphs within the Qin script were proscribed, as...

known as small seal script. While the Book of Han (111 AD) states that Li Si distributed detailed instructions for writing in small seal script to scribes...

purpose of reforming written Chinese into the new orthographic standard Small Seal Script. Beginning in the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 221 CE), many scholars and...

Confucius's family mansion. These older texts were written in a pre-Qin, small seal script (xiaozhuan 小篆). Importantly, they also differed in their content and...

to depict, according to Bernhard Karlgren's interpretation of the small seal script graph, a python. The most common view is that the word refers to a...

fire (later further corrupted to resemble 米 mǐ, rice), as the small seal script graph in a dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, compiled in the Han dynasty, shows...

The character "楚" (pronounced Chǔ in Mandarin) written in small seal script (top), and in regular script (bottom)...

Laozi texts, namely A (甲; written in earlier small seal script) and B (乙; written in later clerical script). Texts A and B were copied at different times...