篆
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seal (of office); seal script (a calligraphic style); the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆; writing in seal script
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 竹 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 篆
- Common rank
- #3,297
- Unicode
- U+7BC6
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Formation & memory
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How 篆 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺮ meaning “bamboo” + 彖 sound ()
Components ⺮ 彖
Words with 篆
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 雕虫篆刻 | literary trifles; minor skill | |
| 大篆 | the great seal; used narrowly for 籀文; used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts | |
| 小篆 | the small or lesser seal, the form of Chinese character standardized by the Qin dynasty | |
| 篆体 | see 篆書|篆书[zhuan4 shu1] | |
| 篆工 | craftsman engaged in carving characters | |
| 篆书 | seal script (Chinese calligraphic style) | |
| 鸟篆 | bird characters (a decorated form of the Great Seal) | |
| 篆刻 | to carve a seal; a seal | |
| 秦篆 | seal script as unified by the Qin dynasty; the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 彖 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 彖 sound part | hog, hedgehog, porcupine | |
| 缘 | reason, cause; fate; margin, hem | |
| 蠡 | termite; to bore | |
| 椽 | beams, rafters, supports | |
| 掾 | a general designation of officials |