Tadpole script
# Tadpole script

Tadpole script or Kedou (蝌蚪文, “蝌蚪书”、“蝌蚪篆”) is a variety of Chinese seal script.

Chinese characters :

Scripts

Precursors

Oracle-bone

Bronze

Seal (bird-wormlargesmall)

Clerical

Regular

Semi-cursive

Cursive

Flat brush

Simplified characters

Type styles

Imitation Song

Ming

Sans-serif :

Properties

Strokes (order)

Radicals

Classification :

Variants

Character-form standards

Kangxi Dictionary

Jiu zixing/Inherited form

Xin zixing

General Standard Chinese Characters (PRC)

Graphemes of commonly-used Chinese characters (Hong Kong)

Standard typefaces for Chinese characters (ROC Taiwan)

Grapheme-usage standards

Graphemic variants

General Standard Characters (PRC)

Jōyō kanji (Japan)

Other standards

Standardized Forms of Words with Variant Forms (PRC)

Previous standards

Commonly-used Characters (PRC)

Tōyō kanji (Japan) :

Reforms

Chinese

Clerical reforms

Traditional characters

Simplified characters (first roundsecond round)

Debate

Japanese

Old (Kyūjitai)

New (Shinjitai)

Ryakuji

Sino-Japanese

Differences between Shinjitai and Simplified characters

Korean

Yakja

Singaporean

Table of Simplified Characters :

Homographs

Literary and colloquial readings :

Use in particular scripts

Written Chinese

Zetian characters

Slavonic transcription

Hokkien

Nüshu

Kanji (Kokuji)

Kana (Man'yōgana)

Idu

Hanja (Gukja)

Chữ Nôm

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Traditionally the origin is said to be that tadpole script manuscripts were first discovered when the house of Confucius was pulled down in the second century. The name comes from the tadpole-shape with big heads and tails of the characters. It was distinct from the insect script. However "tadpole script" can simply be a popular way of referring to the ancient script of the Chou period.

