篆

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

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

⺮ (semantic, “bamboo”) + 彖 (phonetic, tuàn)

components: ⺮彖

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 彖

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 彖 (tuàn) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
彖 sound component	tuàn	hog, hedgehog, porcupine
缘	yuán	reason, cause; fate; margin, hem
蠡	lí	termite; to bore
椽	chuán	beams, rafters, supports
掾	yuàn	a general designation of officials

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
雕虫篆刻	diāo chóng zhuàn kè	literary trifles; minor skill
大篆	dà zhuàn	the great seal; used narrowly for 籀文; used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts
小篆	xiǎo zhuàn	the small or lesser seal, the form of Chinese character standardized by the Qin dynasty
篆体	zhuàn tǐ	see 篆書\|篆书[zhuan4 shu1]
篆工	zhuàn gōng	craftsman engaged in carving characters
篆书	zhuàn shū	seal script (Chinese calligraphic style)
鸟篆	niǎo zhuàn	bird characters (a decorated form of the Great Seal)
篆刻	zhuàn kè	to carve a seal; a seal
秦篆	Qín zhuàn	seal script as unified by the Qin dynasty; the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆