The clerical script (traditional Chinese: 隸書; simplified Chinese: 隶书; pinyin: lìshū), sometimes also chancery script, is a style of Chinese writing that...

some scholars to conclude that the direct ancestor of clerical script was proto-clerical script, which in turn evolved out of the lesser-known vulgar...

dynasty—which then developed into clerical script during the early Han, and matured stylistically thereafter. Clerical script characters are often "flat" in...

Shūpǔ) credits Wang Cizhong [zh] with creating the regular script, based on the clerical script of the early Han dynasty. It became popular during the Eastern...

cursive variants of the clerical script and the regular script. The cursive script functions primarily as a kind of shorthand script or calligraphic style...

of clerical script (隶书; 隸書; lìshū) had emerged based on the vulgar form, often called "early clerical" or "proto-clerical". The proto-clerical script evolved...

Look up clerical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Clerical may refer to: Pertaining to the clergy Pertaining to a clerical worker Clerical script, a style...

in various styles, principally seal script, clerical script, regular script, semi-cursive script, and cursive script. Adaptations range from the conservative...

graphic forms written in a mature clerical script closely resemble those written in standard script. The clerical script is still used for artistic flavor...

traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE, with the sets of forms and norms...

period were written primarily in Literary Chinese using Hanja as its primary script. Therefore, a good working knowledge of Chinese characters is still important...

early clerical (or proto-clerical) in the late Warring States to Qin dynasty period, which would then evolve further into the clerical script used in...

the Chinese writing system transitioned from the seal script character forms to clerical script characters during the early Han dynasty period, through...

old-fashioned iroha ordering and the more prevalent gojūon ordering. After the 1900 script reform, which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana, the hiragana syllabary...

calligraphic writing styles, such as: regular script, seal script, clerical script, running script, and cursive script as well as Japanese styles like Edomoji...

Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE), when clerical script became the popular form of writing, the small seal script was relegated to limited, formal usage...

inherited the Qin administration coincided with the perfection of clerical script through the process of libian. Though most closely associated with...

The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC)...

were also authorised under Qin Shi Huang. Between clerical script and traditional regular script, there is another transitional type of calligraphic...

orthography used prior to the reforms of the clerical script. Hence, they were called "Ancient Script texts". Current Script Texts Confucian classics that were...

it is wide. Compared with the seal script, clerical script characters are strikingly rectilinear. In running script, a semi-cursive form, the character...

Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana...

The Khitan large script (Chinese: 契丹大字; pinyin: qìdān dàzì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language (the other was the...

The Khitan small script (Chinese: 契丹小字; pinyin: qìdān xiǎozì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language (the other was the...

discretized strokes first came into being with the clerical script during the Han dynasty. In the regular script that emerged during the Tang dynasty—the most...

written script evolved from the oracle script and bronze script into the seal script, and then finally into an immature form of clerical script that emerged...

The Jurchen script (Jurchen: /dʒu ʃə bitxə/ ；Chinese: 女真文 ) was the writing system used to write the Jurchen language, the language of the Jurchen people...

sound or whole syllable in the Japanese language, unlike kanji regular script, which corresponds to a meaning (logogram). Apart from the five vowels,...

Semi-cursive script, also known as running script, is a style of Chinese calligraphy that emerged during the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD). The style is...

whole, such as the process of libian and liding that resulted in the clerical script. According to the palaeographer Qiu Xigui, the broadest trend in the...