Company chop
The company seal, in East and Southeast Asian usage, where it often carries more authority than a signature.
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The company chop meaning is straightforward: it is the company seal, a round mark the company presses onto a document to bind itself. What differs between countries is how much weight it carries.
In China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and much of Southeast Asia the chop is the primary mark of corporate authority, and a contract bearing the chop can bind the company even without a signature.
That makes custody of the chop a serious governance question rather than a stationery one: whoever holds it can commit the company.
Chop, seal and company stamp name the same object in different places, so a supplier asking for your chop and a registry asking for your common seal are asking for the same mark.
Related terms
- Company seal: A mark carrying a company’s registered name, used to show that a document was issued by that company.
- Common seal: The formal seal of a company, historically pressed into paper to execute a deed.