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Chinese Chop

A “Chop”, which is a “Seal”, in an East Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps and impressions that are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring authorship. China, Japan, and Korea currently use a mixture of seals and hand signatures, and increasingly, electronic signatures.

Chinese seals are typically made of stone, sometimes of metals, wood, bamboo, plastic, or ivory, and are typically used with red ink or cinnabar paste. The colloquial name chop, when referring to these kinds of seals, was adapted from the Malay word cap during the colonization of the Straits Settlements, and is still used to refer to rubber stamps.

Jade Chop