![]() ![]() The thing that's worrying me is that there's no dash on top of the character in the photo. Here are the styles of characters for 文, but the third one from the left doesn't seem to match any of those. However, it's not as simple as it seems because the style shown on the photo actually differs from small seal scripts. The website provides detailed information about the character's evolution. One just needs to choose the radicals from the table that are present in a character, and the system will show all characters containing chosen radicals; one then needs to find the considered character among the proposed ones. There is also a table of small seal script radicals on the website. Before the Qin conquest, local styles of characters had evolved independently for centuries. This style was standardized and introduced into usage in 220 BC, the year after Qin's unification of the Chinese states. While searching for information about old Chinese characters, I found that this calligraphic style is called small seal script (xiǎo zhuan). I started to find a way to translate it, and to my surprise, there is a website () where one can search for characters using radicals. I felt curious about the whole meaning of the text. At first glance, I could recognize only the "water" character (the second from the left, which looks like a river). In an Incheon museum collecting various items, I saw a text written in old Chinese characters.
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