to carve a seal; a seal

craftsman engaged in carving characters

seal script (Chinese calligraphic style)

see 篆書|篆书[zhuan4 shu1]

the great seal; used narrowly for 籀文; used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts

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

seal script as unified by the Qin dynasty; the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆

bird characters (a decorated form of the Great Seal)