File:周-bronze.svg

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Summary

Description

This “周-bronze-western.svg” vector image is depicting the character 周 in the Western Zhou bronze script style.
It can be drawn with 1

2 pen strokes.
See also Wiktionary: en, fr, ja, zh.

Date

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Source

Available sources for this ancient Chinese character:

Sinica Database
Chinese Etymology.
Multi-function Chinese Character Database.
Chinese Text Project.
Chinese Linguipedia.
For this picture, see b01557 image on 周's page in hanziyuan.net's data.
For this picture, see 31.E615 image on 周's page in xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw's data.Note: 保卣 (early Western Zhou)

Author

Digital file creation, see the contributor names shown in the “User” column of the “File history” section below.

Permission
(Reusing this file)

Courtesy, permission and copyright from Richard Sears website © 2003 (see Richard Sears Agreement).
Picture from Sinica Database is under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (see License).

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Other versions

• Shang oracle script

• Shang bronze script

• Western Zhou bronze script
this image

• Spring and Autumn bronze script

• Warring States bronze script

• Chu slip and silk script

• Qin slip script

• Shuowen seal script

• Shuowen ancient script

• Shuowen Zhou script

• Shuowen odd script

• Shuowen vulgar script

• Liushutong big seal script

• Clerical/scribal Han script

• Clerical/scribal Qing script

• Regular script in Kaicheng Stone Classics

• Ming script in Kangxi Dictionary

• Semi-cursive Xingshu script

SVG development

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This ancient Chinese character was created with Inkscape.

This image is part of the Ancient Chinese characters project (zh: 古漢字, fr: Anciens Hanzi), a project to create a complete set of SVG images depicting ancient Chinese characters. Help is welcome (tutorial).

Licensing

Public domain

This SVG representation of an ancient script is in the public domain.

The script itself predates the modern concept of copyright, and the creator of this image has released (or hereby releases) into the public domain any copyright generated by the making of the file (and grants an unconditional license to anyone, for any jurisdictions in which public-domain release is not legal). This applies internationally and for any purpose.

Attribution is not required but appreciated.

Example: the Chinese character 龍/龙 in seal script

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2-stroke ancient Chinese characters]]

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:41, 21 February 2018	300 × 300 (4 KB)	Wargaz	higher quality
	23:40, 19 February 2018	300 × 300 (8 KB)	Wargaz	more details
	02:44, 15 July 2016	300 × 300 (7 KB)	Alexbdf	{{ACClicense\|週\|bronze\|b01557\|strokes=0\|component1=}}