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    Seal script or sigillary script is a style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC. It evolved...
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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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    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...
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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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    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...
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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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    imperial seal bore the inscription Yu qian zhi bao (御前之寶, yü ch’ien chih pao, "Seal in front of the Emperor") written in folded seal script and was found...
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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 (鸟虫篆; 鳥蟲篆;...
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    the later 'Phags-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...
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  • detect tampering Seal (1991 album), by Seal Seal (1994 album), sometimes referred to as Seal II, by Seal Seal IV, a 2003 album by Seal Seal Online, a 2003...
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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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    slips (c. 309 BC). 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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    Nine-fold seal script or nine-fold script, also translated nine-bend script, or layered script is a highly stylised form of Chinese calligraphy derived...
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    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)...
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    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...
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    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...
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    such as Bird Script (鳥書 niǎoshū), also called Bird Seal Script (niǎozhuàn 鳥篆), and Worm Script (chóngshū 蟲書). 寅 Yín in four different scripts on Shang–Zhou...
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    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...
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    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. Jacques...
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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 Chinese script styles, popular starting from the Three Kingdoms period c. 200 CE, and stylistically mature by the...
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    Seals of the Republic of China Seal of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Privy Seal of Japan State Seal of Japan Seal script Seal cutting...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Harappan Phase". A 5000 year old seal was found with 4 alphabets of the IVC script and language painted in black. This seal has 4 alphabets or characters...
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    Old Chinese (section Script)
    early forms of Chinese characters, including Oracle Bone, Bronze, and Seal scripts. Throughout the Old Chinese period, there was a close correspondence...
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    script (jīn wén) and large seal script (dà zhuàn) "cursive" signs continued. Mao Gong Ding is one of the most famous and typical bronzeware scripts in...
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    Hanja (redirect from Hanja script)
    period were written primarily in Literary Chinese using Hanja as its primary script. Therefore, a good working knowledge of Chinese characters is still important...
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  • calligraphic writing styles, such as: regular script, seal script, clerical script, running script, and cursive script as well as Japanese styles like Edomoji...
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  • script characters are "flat" in appearance, being wider than the seal script, which tends to be taller than it is wide. Compared with the seal script...
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