唐韵 TangYun (小篆 XiaoZhuan) Icons 1.0.1
Description: 使用北師大說文小篆生成.
Chinese - English - XiaoZhuan - IM Status Dictionary:
http://lancaster.themex.net/archives/1304
小篆是在秦始皇统一中国后（前221年），推行“书同文，车同轨”，统一度量衡的政策，由宰相李斯负责，在秦国原来使用的大篆籀文的基础上，进行简化，取消其他六国的异体字，创制的统一文字汉字书写形式。一直在中国流行到西汉末年（约公元8年），才逐渐被隶书所取代。但由于其字体优美，始终被书法家所青睐。又因为其笔画复杂，形式奇古，而且可以随意添加曲折，印章刻制上，尤其是需要防伪的官方印章，一直采用篆书，直到封建王朝覆灭，近代新防伪技术出现。现代的康熙字典上所有的字还注有小篆写法。
维基中文: http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%B0%8F%E7%AF%86&variant=zh-cn
Lesser or Small Seal Script (小篆 Xiaozhuan), or Hsiao-chuan is associated with the work on Chinese characters compiled by Li Si during the Qin Dynasty under the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang.
Before the Qin conquest of the last remaining six of the Seven Warring States of China, local styles of characters eveloved independent of one another for centuries producing what are called the Six States Scripts 六國文字. Under one unified government however, the diversity was not deemed desirable for mainly two reasons; first it hindered timely communication, trade, taxing, and transportation, and second independent scripts represented possibly dissenting political ideas especially in areas where the Confucian tradition remained strong.
Wikipedia EN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Seal_Script