BRONZEWARE SCRIPT

'Bronzeware script' (Chinese: 金文; pinyin: jīn wén or Chinese: 鐘鼎文; pinyin: zhōng dǐng wén) is a family of scripts found on Chinese bronzes such as zhong (bells) and ding (tripods), since bronze artifacts with Chinese characters span many centuries and they have been found in many areas of China. Jinwen characters are sometimes irregular in shape; that is, they are not as regular in shape or size as modern Chinese characters are. Shang Dynasty bronzes rarely have such characters on them, but bronze script is known throughout the Zhou Dynasty.

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See also

★ Seal script

★ Oracle script

References

★ Bronzeware script By Caren Zuo at journeytochinese.com

★ The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, , , Ping Li, Cambridge University Press, , ISBN 0521833337