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2020: 1706:...clearly emerging from the womb of early period semi-cursive script. If one were to write the tidily written variety of early period semi-cursive script in a more dignified fashion and were to use consistently the pause technique , used to reinforce the beginning or ending of a stroke when ending horizontal strokes, a practice which already appears in early period semi-cursive script, and further were to make use of right-falling strokes with thick feet, the result would be a style of calligraphy like that in the "Xuān shì biǎo". 1045: 2043: 62: 213: 1710:
However, very few wrote in this script at the time other than a few literati; most continued writing in the neo-clerical script, or a hybrid form of semi-cursive and neo-clerical. The regular script did not become dominant until the 5th century during the early
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encapsulate varieties of most strokes that appear in the regular script. Regular script characters with dimensions larger than 5 cm (2 in) are usually classified as 'large' (
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wrote a guidebook illustrating these rules, with four characters provided as an example for each.
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92 rules governing the fundamental structure of regular script were established during the
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Notable works written in regular script include the Northern and Southern-era
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Regular script is referred to by several related names in Chinese, including
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semi-syllabograms are nearly always written using regular script strokes.
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The script is considered to have become stylistically mature during the
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typefaces are based on a printed style which developed during the
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created an iconic style known as 'slender gold' (
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Palaeographer 1589:Chinese script styles 1348:Simplified characters 2905:Chinese script style 2577:Ming / Song 1931:), and the Tang-era 1843:Eight Principles of 217:"Kaishu" written in 2533:Semi-cursive script 2415:Handwritten scripts 2337:Li, Wendan (2009), 1319:(Taiwan, 1982) 1311:(Taiwan, 2009) 923:Vietnamese alphabet 900:Canton Romanization 760:Canton Romanization 620:Canton Romanization 494:Canton Romanization 354:Canton Romanization 2833:Canadian syllabics 2702:Scripts in Unicode 2687:History of writing 2423:Oracle bone script 2001:Computer typefaces 1797:). 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Index

Regular Script
Kaiti, New Zealand
Haeju
Kaishō Asaki

Logographic
Oracle bone script
Small seal script
Clerical script
Ming typefaces
Fangsong
Unicode
Unicode range
U+4E00–U+9FFF
full list

traditional
simplified
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Canton Romanization
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin

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