Seal script or sigillary script (simplified Chinese: 篆书; traditional Chinese: 篆書; pinyin: Zhuànshū; lit. 'decorative engraving script') is a style of...

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 term large seal script traditionally refers to written Chinese dating from before the Qin dynasty—now used either narrowly to the writing of the Western...

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...

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...

Nine-fold seal script or nine-fold script,, also called jiudiezhuan or jiudiewen, nine-bend script, or translated as layered script is a highly stylised...

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...

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 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...

inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts, preceded by the oracle bone script. Seal script (Chinese: 篆書; pinyin: zhuànshū)...

(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...

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...

the later ʼPhags-pa script is actually a seal script of Tibetan. Korean records state that Hangul was based on an "Old Seal Script" (古篆字), which may be...

non-circulation coins. A number of bronze official seals with the seal face inscribed in a convoluted seal script style of Khitan characters are also known. Gernet...

Bird Script (鳥書 niǎoshū), also called Bird Seal Script (niǎozhuàn 鳥篆), and Worm Script (chóngshū 蟲書). 寅 Yín ('tiger') in four different scripts on Shang–Zhou...

in Seal Script were used. Following the establishment of the South Korean state in August 1948, its government adopted on 5 May 1949 a new state seal, or...

China Nine Tripod Cauldrons Seal (East Asia) Seal of the People's Government of the People's Republic of China Seal script The Complete Collection of Treasures...

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...

4.5 kg. It is square, and its inscription 大日本國璽 ("Seal of Great Japan") is written in seal script (篆書, tensho). It is written vertically in two lines...

in various styles, principally seal script, clerical script, regular script, semi-cursive script, and cursive script. Adaptations range from the conservative...

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...

dynasty. This was also the first time regular script was used as all earlier cash coins exclusively used seal script. During the Song dynasty a large number...

square, and its inscription 天皇御璽 ("The Emperor's Imperial Seal") is written in seal script (篆書, tensho). It has two lines of vertical writing, with the...

based on Zhang Binglin's shorthand. It was used as the official phonetic script to annotate the sounds of the characters in accordance with the Old National...

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...

old-fashioned iroha ordering and the more prevalent gojūon ordering. After the 1900 script reform, which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana, the hiragana syllabary...

to the seal script form, two other variant styles were included if they differed in form—called 'ancient script' (gǔwén 古文) and 'Zhou script' (Zhòuwén...

mainly the dazhuan (大篆) or jinwen (金文) scripts were used. During the Qin dynasty the more regular and formal seal script called xiaozhuan (小篆) was formalized...

Look up SEAL, Seal, seal, or sealed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Seal may refer to any of the following: Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic...

in Jiangling, Hubei in November 1983. The script on it is bird-worm seal script, a variant of seal script that was commonly used in the southern states...