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Bird seal script (Chinese: 鳥篆; pinyin: niǎo zhuàn; Chinese: 鳥書; pinyin: niǎo shū [1] In this style, some parts of characters have a bird-like head and tail added. The bird style sign is a combination of two parts: a complete seal script character and one (sometimes two) bird shape(s).
In the same areas, in the late Spring and Autumn to early Warring States, scripts which embellished basic structures with decorative forms such as birds or worms also appeared. These are known as Bird Script (niǎoshū 鳥書) and Worm Script (chóngshū 蟲書), and collectively as Bird-worm scripts, (niǎochóngshū 鳥蟲書; see Bronze ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Chinese script style" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Bird-worm seal script; C. Chinese bronze inscriptions;
Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...
While written Chinese and many of its descendant scripts are logographic, others are phonetic, including the kana, Nüshu, and Lisu syllabaries, as well as the bopomofo semi-syllabary. [1] These scripts are written in various styles, principally seal script, clerical script, regular script, semi-cursive script, and cursive script.
During the Japanese colonisation of Korea from around the 1920s [a] a usual Korean amulet appeared that bore an inscription written in bird-worm seal script [b] that reads "水得女汝, 月於日明" if read clockwise, [c] however multiple hypotheses have been proposed as to what the actual reading order is, the amulet attempts to teach its readers how to read Chinese characters by using ...
Written and spoken Chinese varieties have different character graphs and sounds representing mythological and legendary birds of China. Bronze script version of the niǎo character (鳥) The character zhuī (隹), in Large seal script. The Chinese characters or graphs used have varied over time calligraphically or typologically.