| 篆 | zhuàn | seal (of office) / seal script (a calligraphic style) / the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆 / writing in seal script |
| 大篆 | dà zhuàn | the great seal / used narrowly for 籀文 / used broadly for many pre-Qin scripts |
| 秦篆 | Qín zhuàn | seal script as unified by the Qin dynasty / the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆 |
| 史籀篇 | Shǐ zhòu piān | Shizhoupian, early school primer in great seal script 大篆[da4 zhuan4], attributed to King Xuan of Zhou 周宣王[Zhou1 Xuan1 wang2] but probably dating from c. 500 BC |