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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...