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October 16

What style of Chinese character is this?

My girlfriend recently downloaded an app called "Seal Script" to my phone so I can look up old versions of characters. I looked up the characters for "Great Sage Equaling Heaven", and this is the result.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/VEdi8K.jpg

The app calls this style "sharp" but that doesn't help unless I know the actual Chinese name. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you in advance.

--Ghostexorcist (talk) 04:31, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

I certainly can't tell one seal script from another, Ghostexorcist; but this has labels for the scripts. Does it help at all? --ColinFine (talk) 13:07, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

The "heaven" character in that graphic doesn't closely resemble File:天-seal.svg or File:天-bigseal.svg (though certainly closer to the former)... AnonMoos (talk) 15:59, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you both. I'm still not quite sure what the style is. I'll just assume there are subtle variations of seal script. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 17:58, 18 October 2018 (UTC)