seal script
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general term for the various writing styles of Chinese characters in the latter half of the 1st millennium BCE during the Zhou Dynasty
Key facts
- Script type
- Logographic
- Period
- c. 700 BC – c. 200 AD
- Direction
- Top-to-bottom
- Languages
- Old Chinese
- Parent systems
- Oracle bone script Seal script
- Child systems
- Clerical script Regular script
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Zhou dynasty
- Based on
- oracle bone script
- Image
- Seal Eg.png
- Has use
- orthography
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- Commons category
- Seal script
- described by source
- Gujin Tushu Jicheng
- inception
- 1100-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Vietnamese name Vietnamese alphabet triện thư chữ triện
Hán-Nôm篆書 𡨸篆
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