Seal Script versus Traditional Script : Korean Medals 한국 메달

Quick introduction to seal script 篆書快速入門
The Small Seal script is not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+32400 to U+3520F in the Roadmap to the TIP for the Unicode Standard. Several proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2.

Many of the early Korean and Japanese, medals and badges had inscriptions in Small Seal Script. To those who want or need to translate Seal Script to Standard/Traditional Script, I offer the following tables.

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Seal Script Table #1

Between the two red lines, the upper line is Traditional Script, with the next line being the equivalent Seal Script. Characters are laid out by the number of strokes that make up a standard/traditional character. In general, the least complicated words are at the top of this page and progressively get more complex as you go down. There are several variations to seal script, this is just one of them.

Seal Script Table #2

The following table of 3600 characters was pulled from “Printable Quick Start Copybook for Seal Script“. While the previous table was laid out by stroke order, this table has grouped together the seal characters by their radicals. To find a seal character, you need to determine the radical on which the character is based and then go into the table and find that group of seal characters based on that radical. For example, Radical #24 (十) appears in the first 60 seal characters in the lower table. Words using Radical #25 (卜) starts with character #61 in the chart below (Page 4, 1^st Character).

The Chinese radicals in this table are listed by their stroke count: