Writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes
Chinese bronze inscriptions
Inscription on the Song ding, c. 800 BC
Chinese name
Chinese
金文
Literal meaning
Bronze writing
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Jīnwén
Bopomofo
ㄐㄧㄣ ㄨㄣˊ
Wade–Giles
Chin1-wen2
Tongyong Pinyin
Jin-wún
IPA
[tɕín.wə̌n]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Gāmmàhn
Jyutping
gam1 man4
Canton Romanization
Gem1-men4
IPA
[kɐm˥ mɐn˩]
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
鐘鼎文
Simplified Chinese
钟鼎文
Literal meaning
Bell and cauldron writing
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhōngdǐngwén
Bopomofo
ㄓㄨㄥ ㄉㄧㄥˇ ㄨㄣˊ
Wade–Giles
Chung1-ting3-wen2
Tongyong Pinyin
Jhong-dǐng-wún
IPA
[ʈʂʊ́ŋ.tìŋ.wə̌n]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jūngdíngmàhn
Jyutping
zung1 ding2 man4
Canton Romanization
Zung1-ding2-men4
IPA
[tsoŋ˥ teŋ˧˥ mɐn˩]
Japanese name
Kanji
金文
Hiragana
きんぶん
Katakana
キンブン
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn
Kinbun
Kunrei-shiki
Kinbun
Chinese characters
Chinese family of scripts
Written Chinese
Kanji
Hanja
Chữ Hán
Historical forms and styles
Neolithic symbols in China
Oracle bone
Bronze
Seal (Bird-worm
Large
Small)
Clerical
Cursive
Semi-cursive
Regular
Flat brush
Typefaces
Fangsong
Ming
Sans-serif
Properties and classification
Components
Strokes (order)
Radical
Collation and standards
Character-form standards
Jiu zixing
Xin zixing
Kangxi Dictionary forms (1716)
General Standard Chinese Characters (mainland China, 2013)
Graphemes of Commonly-used Chinese characters (Hong Kong, 2007)
Standard Form of National Characters (Taiwan, 1982)
Grapheme-usage standards
General Standard Characters (PRC, 2013)
Jōyō kanji (Japan, 2010)
Other standards
Standardized Forms of Words with Variant Forms (PRC, 2002)
Nan Min Recommended Characters (Taiwan, 2009)
Previous standards
Commonly-used Characters (PRC, 1988)
Tōyō kanji (Japan, 1946)
Reforms
China
Clerical reforms
Traditional characters
Simplified characters
(first round
second round)
Debate
Japan
Kyūjitai
Shinjitai
Ryakuji
Korea
Yakja
Singapore
Table of Simplified Characters
Homographs and readings
Literary and colloquial readings
Variants
Graphemic variants
Zetian characters
Derived systems
Slavonic transcription
Nüshu
Kana (
Man'yōgana
Hiragana
Katakana
)
Jurchen script
Khitan (
Large
Small
)
Idu script
Bopomofo
Sawndip
Chữ Nôm
Transliteration of Chinese
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Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as zhōng bells and dǐng tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty (2nd millennium BC) to the Zhou dynasty (11th–3rd century BC) and even later. Early bronze inscriptions were almost always cast (that is, the writing was done with a stylus in the wet clay of the piece-mold from which the bronze was then cast), while later inscriptions were often engraved after the bronze was cast.[1] The bronze inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts, preceded by the oracle bone script.
^Qiú 2000 p.60
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