Chinese Chops Stamp

he Chinese chop – called YìnJian – is the equivalent of a stamp and is used in lieu of signatures on personal documents. Chops are also used for office paperwork, contracts, and any other item requiring acknowledgment or authorship.

The Mandarin word Yìn refers to the imprint process created by the seal. Chop – the colloquial name for the Chinese seal was adapted from the Hindi word chapa and the Malay word cap, which means stamp or rubber stamp.

Chinese seals are typically made of stone, but they might also be manufactured from bamboo, plastic, ivory, wood, or metal. The seals are generally used with red ink or cinnabar paste.