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    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...
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    independently in each kingdom during the Eastern Zhou. One of these, the bird-worm seal script, is named for its intricate decorations on the defining strokes...
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  • usual Korean amulet appeared that bore an inscription written in bird-worm seal script that reads "水得女汝, 月於日明" if read clockwise, however multiple hypotheses...
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    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...
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  • Confucian coin charm (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    which have inscriptions written in bird-worm seal script. Bird-worm seal script is one of the oldest Chinese scripts, which originated more than 2500 years...
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    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)...
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    as small seal script (小篆; xiǎozhuàn) within the Zhou state of Qin. Other scripts in use during the late Zhou include the bird-worm seal script (鸟虫书; 鳥蟲書;...
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    Sword of Goujian (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    Eight characters are written in an ancient script, now known as Bird-worm seal script (literally "birds and worms characters", owing to the intricate decorations...
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    traditions Chinese folk religion Chinese spiritual world concepts Bird-worm seal script Daoshi Fuji (planchette writing) Ofuda and omamori Shigandang Thai...
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    as 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...
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  • 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...
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    Zhejiang (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    dialects spoken in north and inland China. The Sword of Goujian bears bird-worm seal script. Yuenü (Chinese: 越女; pinyin: Yuènǚ; Wade–Giles: Yüeh-nü; lit. 'the...
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    (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...
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    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...
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    in various styles, principally seal script, clerical script, regular script, semi-cursive script, and cursive script. Adaptations range from the conservative...
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    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...
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    Hán and chữ Quốc ngữ. Spoken and written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words (thuần Việt)...
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  • The Japanese script reform is the attempt to correlate standard spoken Japanese with the written word, which began during the Meiji period. This issue...
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  • Handan Chun (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    the Weilüe, Handan Chun was an expert in many types of scripts, including bird-worm seal script, and in the Shuowen Jiezi. The Siti shushi (四體書勢), quoted...
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  • Tadpole script or Kedou (蝌蚪文, “蝌蚪书”、“蝌蚪篆”) is a variety of Chinese seal script. Traditionally the origin is said to be that tadpole script manuscripts...
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    Chữ Nôm (redirect from Chu Nom script)
    variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. This composite script was therefore highly complex and was accessible to the less than five percent...
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  • Kyōiku kanji (List of kanji by school year) Jinmeiyō kanji Hyōgaiji Japanese script reform Kanji radicals Learning kanji The List of Commonly Used Standard...
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    Korean words and grammatical morphemes as well as Chinese loanwords. The script, which was developed by Buddhist monks, made it possible to record Korean...
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    The Flat Brush script (simplified Chinese: 漆书; traditional Chinese: 漆書 pinyin: qī shū) is a writing style in Chinese calligraphy that was created by Jin...
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  • of scripts Written Chinese Kanji Hanja Chữ Hán Evolution of script styles Neolithic symbols in China Oracle bone Bronze Seal Large Small Bird-worm Clerical...
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  • traditional Chinese: 女書; pinyin: Nǚshū; [ny˨˩˨ʂu˦]; 'women's script') is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used by ethnic Yao...
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  • 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...
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    Hanja (redirect from Hanja script)
    records were written primarily in Literary Chinese using Hanja as its primary script. As early as 1446, King Sejong the Great promulgated Hangul (also known...
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  • Chinese character classification (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
    earliest forms of characters, including Shang-era oracle bone script and the Zhou-era bronze scripts, is often necessary for reconstructing their historical...
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    Ming typefaces (redirect from Songti script)
    correspond to the Song dynasty when a distinctive printed style of regular script was developed, and the Ming dynasty during which that style developed into...
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