zhuàn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 seal script (a calligraphic style)
  2. 2 seal (of office)

Examples

Zhè kuài gǔ bēi shang de zì shì yòng zhuànshū xiě de.
The characters on this ancient stone tablet are written in seal script.
Tā shàncháng kè yìnzhāng, yóuqí xǐ'ài zhuàn tǐ.
He is good at carving seals and especially loves seal script.

Tips

culture
names the oldest mainstream calligraphic style, split into great seal 大篆 (大篆) and small seal 小篆 (小篆). It is still the default script for carved name seals today.

Components

radical
zhú
bamboo
⺮ is the bamboo radical in its top-cap form, the standalone compressed above. It points to the bamboo slips ancient seal-script texts were written on.
phonetic
tuàn
judgement; phonetic
supplies the sound (the reading drifted from tuàn to zhuàn). It also appears in the related family of characters built on this same phonetic.

Stroke Order

zhuàn