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Not sure if you know Chinese or not but seal script will look rather familiar to anyone who knows Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script https://en
by hangonhn 8y ago
Not sure if you know Chinese or not but seal script will look rather familiar to anyone who knows Chinese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script
If you look at the picture on the upper right, you can make out "tian xia" and "wang" -- all under heaven (i.e. the world) and king (the character for emperor isn't invented yet)
- hnnmzh 8y ago> the character for emperor isn't invented yet Hmm it's right there。 The 4th “皇” and 5th “帝”。 And the combined form “皇帝” - a title invented by the First Emperor himself。
- hangonhn 8y agoGood catch. But that just adds more to my point: modern Chinese can understand seal script to a large extend because seal script is the ancestor of the modern (non-simplified) Chinese. My guess is that neither you nor I are "Indiana Jones".