zhuàn

seal script

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

bamboo

彖 sound component

  Sound component

tuàn

  

a hog

Evolution

篆 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
篆 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
篆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

zhuàn

seal script; seal, official stamp; seal (of office); seal script (a calligraphic style); the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆; writing in seal script

Most common words with 篆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

seal (of office)

篆刻

carving a seal

小篆

the small or lesser seal, the form of Chinese character standardized by the Qin dynasty

篆书

seal script (Chinese calligraphic style)

大篆

the great seal

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4254th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7BC6

Shuowen

“篆,引書也。从竹,彖聲。”


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