Seal, also called Small Seal, is a Unicode block covering the seal script character repertoire of the Han dynasty dictionary , i.e. small seal script, Guwen, and Zhouwen.
Structure
Characters are arranged according to Shuowen Jiezi radicals, in contrast to CJK Unified Ideographs, which are arranged according to Kangxi radicals. Also in contrast to CJK Unified Ideographs, the concept of a residual stroke count is not applicable to seal script, and is not included. However, the first character of each radical group is always the radical itself.
Like CJK Unified Ideographs, multiple reference glyphs may be shown per character: characters have up to four reference glyphs, respectively sourced from or consistent with the recensions by Xu Xuan (in two editions), Xu Kai, and Duan Yucai.
Each character is cross-referenced to the closest corresponding CJK Unified Ideograph (i.e. a liding or libian). For variant characters with no corresponding CJK Unified Ideograph, the CJK Unified Ideograph corresponding to the variant which denotes as "standard seal script" () is referenced.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related committee and working group documents record the process by which the character repertoire of the Small Seal block was selected and arranged:
Version Count UTC or L2 ID WG2 ID IRG ID Document 18.0 U+3D000..3FC3F 11,328 L2/03-450 N0999 L2/03-452 N2684 N1014 L2/04-204 N2782R N1055 N1087 N1102 N1119 N1123 N1134 N1135 N1135R N1706 N1742 N1746 N4095 N1814 N1842 N4233 N1836 L2/14-242 N4634 L2/15-281 N4688 L2/16-092 N4716 N4755 N4761 L2/17-250 N4834 L2/17-317 N4852 N4844 N4843 L2/17-318 N4853 N4855 L2/17-371 N4909 N4973 N4992 N4996 N5034 N5089 L2/19-228 (appendix) N5105 (appendix) L2/19-245 N5108 N5117 N5118 N5119 N5123 N5133 (appendix) L2/22-140 N5188 L2/22-141 N5189 L2/22-139 N5187 L2/22-142 N5190 L2/22-143 N5191 L2/22-128 L2/22-279 N5209 (appendix) N5211 (appendix) N5219 N5230 (appendix) N5231 N5232 (appendix) L2/23-166 N5242 (appendix) N5272 N5273 N5293 N5326 N5294 (appendix) (appendix) (appendix) (appendix) N5294R L2/25-049 N5294R2 (appendix) L2/25-049R N5294R3 L2/25-111 N5306 N5307 N5312 N5313 N5318 N5317 N5307R N5313R (appendix) N5318R N5317R N5317R2 N5342 N5327 N5337 N5341 N5317R3 N5343 L2/25-232 L2/25-232R L2/25-226 N5344 N5346 (appendix) N5344R N5344R2 N5355 N5348 N5348R L2/26-108
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