Editing Small seal script (section)

{{Short description|Form of Chinese characters from the Qin dynasty}}
{{Infobox writing system
|type=[[Logographic]]
|languages=[[Old Chinese]] 
|time={{circa|500&nbsp;BC|200&nbsp;AD}}
|fam1=([[Proto-writing]])
|fam2=[[Oracle bone script]]
|fam3=[[Bronze script]]
|fam4=[[Large seal script]]
|children=[[Clerical script]]
|sample=Edict bronze standard weight Qin dynasty.jpg
|iso15924=Seal
|note=none
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
| c = 小篆
| p = xiǎozhuàn
| w = hsiao<sup>3</sup>-chuan<sup>4</sup>
| j = siu2 syun6
| l = small seal
| altname = Qin script
| c2 = 秦篆
| p2 = Qínzhuàn
| j2 = Ceon4 syun6
| w2 = Chʻin<sup>2</sup>-chuan<sup>4</sup>
| l2 = Qin seal
}}
{{Table Hanzi}}

The '''small seal script''' is an archaic [[script style]] of [[written Chinese]]. It developed within the [[state of Qin]] during the [[Eastern Zhou]] dynasty (771–256&nbsp;BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used in other [[ancient Chinese states]] following [[Qin's wars of unification]] and establishment of the [[Qin dynasty]] (221–206&nbsp;BC) under [[Qin Shi Huang]], the first [[emperor of China]].