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Nine-fold seal script [a] [1] [2] or nine-fold script, [b] [3], also called jiudiezhuan [1] [2] or jiudiewen [3], nine-bend script, [3] or translated as layered script [5] is a highly stylised form of Chinese calligraphy derived from small seal script, using convoluted winding strokes aligned to horizontal and vertical directions, folded back and forth to fill the available space.
This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface , the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script".
The clerical script (隶书; 隸書 lìshū)—sometimes called official, draft, or scribal script—is popularly thought to have developed in the Han dynasty and to have come directly from seal script, but recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship indicate that it instead developed from a roughly executed and rectilinear popular or "vulgar" variant of the seal script as well as seal ...
The most popular style of script for government seals in the imperial eras of China (from the Song dynasty to Qing dynasty) was the nine-fold seal script (九疊文; jiǔdiéwén), a highly stylised script which is unreadable to the untrained.
Pages in category "Chinese script style" ... List of CJK fonts; N. Nine-fold seal script; O. Oracle bone script; R. Regular script; S.
A number of bronze official seals with the seal face inscribed in the Khitan large script are also known. The Khitan characters on these seals are engraved in a convoluted calligraphic style that imitates the Chinese "nine-fold" seal script style of calligraphy.
A Nine-Fold Seal Script charms with the inscription Benming Yuanshen (本命元神). Nine-Fold Seal Script charms ( Traditional Chinese : 九疊文錢; Simplified Chinese : 九叠文钱; Pinyin : jiǔ dié wén qián ) are Chinese numismatic charms with inscriptions in nine-fold seal script , a style of seal script that was in use from the Song ...
After the western state of Qin unified China, its more conservative seal script became the standard across the entire country. [14] A simplified form known as clerical script became the standard during the Han dynasty, and later evolved into regular script, which remains in use. [15] At the same time, semi-cursive and cursive scripts developed ...