Cursive script (East Asia)
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Cursive script (Chinese: 草書, cǎoshū; Japanese: 草書体, sōshotai; Korean: 초서, choseo; Vietnamese: thảo thư), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy. It is an umbrella term for the cursive variants of the clerical script and the regular script.[1]
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 草書 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 草书 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | draft script | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Vietnamese alphabet | thảo thư chữ thảo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Hán-Nôm | 草書 𡨸草 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 초서 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kanji | 草書体 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Oracle bone script
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The cursive script functions primarily as a kind of shorthand script or calligraphic style and is faster to write than other styles, but it can be difficult to read for those unfamiliar with it because of its abstraction and alteration of character structures. People who can read only standard or printed forms of Chinese or related scripts may have difficulty reading the cursive script.