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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), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used in other ancient Chinese states following Qin's wars of unification and establishment of the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) under Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of ...
I think the article Xiaozhuan should be renamed to "Small Seal Script". That is the correct name. Seal script is not identical to "Small Seal Script" right off the bat as the first sentence proposed. This should be changed. Benjwong 20:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC) It's all set.
Cook, Richard (2001), The Extreme of Typographic Complexity:Character Set Issues Relating to Computerization of The Eastern Han Chinese Lexicon Shuowenjiezi (PDF), STEDT Project, Linguistic Department, University of California, Berkeley, pp. 28–29: List of the 540 radicals in Xiaozhuan (in Chinese) 《說文解字》, electronic edition ...
The term seal script may refer to several distinct varieties, including 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 within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–221 BC), which was later standardized under Qin Shi Huang (r.
The Shuowen Jiezi entry for 子 'child', showing the small seal script (top right), ancient script (top left), and Zhou script (bottom left) forms. [1] A page from a commentary on the work by Wang Guowei. The Shizhoupian (Chinese: 史籀篇) is the first known Chinese dictionary, and was written in the ancient large seal script.
This is an English Wiki, and the names 'seal script' and 'small seal script' are the dominant English forms for xiaozhuan. Furthermore, what little info there is on the page is bad; small seal script was not invented by Li Si; I've added clarifications and reference on the seal script and other relevant pages.
It has, to a large extent, captured the essence of xiaozhuan. [5] Zhòuwén (籀文; "Large Seal Script") and xiǎozhuàn (小篆; "Small Seal Script") were archaic forms of Chinese calligraphy. Thus, the Zilin followed the Shuowen jiezi format of giving the head character entry in Small Seal Script and the definition in clerical script.
These new additions were written in a standardized Han dynasty script. [6] During the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han (r. 33 – 7 BCE), however, older manuscripts were discovered in the imperial archives and in the walls of Confucius's family mansion. [6] These older texts were written in a pre-Qin, small seal script (xiaozhuan 小篆).