The regular script or standard script, or in Chinese kaishu (simplified Chinese: 楷书; traditional Chinese: 楷書; pinyin: kǎishū) and Japanese kaisho, also commonly known as standard regular (正楷), is the newest of the Chinese calligraphy styles (appearing by the Cao Wei dynasty ca. A Chinese character, also known as a Han character ( is a Logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi Japanese ( Neolithic signs At a range of Neolithic sites in China, small numbers of symbols of either pictorial or simple geometric nature have been unearthed which were Variant Chinese characters ( are Chinese characters that can be used interchangeably The second round of Chinese character simplification was an aborted orthography reform officially promulgated on 20 December 1977 by the People's The debate on Traditional Chinese characters and Simplified Chinese characters (繁簡之爭 more recently 正簡之爭 a are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with Hiragana (ひらがな 平仮名 Katakana is an ancient Writing system which employs Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated Idu is an archaic Writing system which represents the Korean language using Hanja. Hán tự ( {{IPA|/han˦˥ tɯ˨/}}; 漢[[wikt 字|字]] meaning " Chinese character " or chữ Nho ( {{IPA|/tɕɯ˧˨˧ ɲɔ/}} Chữ Nôm ( IPA: /cɨ3ˀ5 nom33/ chữ Nôm in Unicode: 字[[wikt 喃|喃]]/ 𡨸 喃/ 𡦂 喃 chữ Nôm in Unicode The art of Calligraphy is widely practiced and revered in the East Asian Civilizations that use or used Chinese characters. Oracle bone script ( refers to incised (or rarely brush-written ancient Chinese characters found on Oracle bones which are animal bones or turtle shells used in Chinese Bronze inscriptions are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on Chinese bronze artifacts such as zhōng bells and dǐng tripodal cauldrons Seal script ( Chinese: Simplified 篆书 篆書 Pinyin: zhuànshū is an ancient style of Chinese calligraphy. The clerical script ( pinyin lìshū; Japanese 隷書体 Reishotai; formerly also chancery script is an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy which Semi-cursive script is a partially cursive style of Chinese calligraphy. Cursive script ( simplified草书 erroneously translated as Grass script is a style of Chinese calligraphy. Since the Chinese language uses a logographic script — that is a script where one or more " characters " corresponds roughly to one "word" or Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities The art of Calligraphy is widely practiced and revered in the East Asian Civilizations that use or used Chinese characters. Cao Wei ( was one of the empires that competed for control of China during the Three Kingdoms period 200 CE and maturing stylistically around the 7th century), hence most common in modern writings and publications (after the non-calligraphic printing Song Ti). The 7th century is the period from 601 to 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. Ming typefaces, known as Song typefaces in Mainland China, are a category of Typefaces used to display Chinese characters which are used in the It is also occasionally known as true script (真書 zhēnshū) and standard script (正書 zhèngshū).

Standard script came into being between the Eastern Hàn and Cáo Wèi dynasties ^[1], and its first known master was Zhōng Yáo (sometimes also read Zhōng Yóu; 鍾繇) ^[2], who lived in the E. The Han Dynasty ( 206 BC–220 AD followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. Cao Wei ( was one of the empires that competed for control of China during the Three Kingdoms period Hàn to Cáo Wèi period, ca 151-230 CE. He is known as the “father of standard script”, and his famous works include the Xuānshì Biǎo (宣示表), Jiànjìzhí Biǎo (薦季直表), and Lìmìng Biǎo (力命表). Qiú Xīguī (2000, p. 143) describes the script in Zhong’s Xuānshì Biǎo as:

“…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 (dùn 頓, 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”.

However, other than a few literati, very few wrote in this script at the time; most continued writing in neo-clerical script, or a hybrid form of semi-cursive and neo-clerical^[3]. Standard script did not become dominant until the early Southern and Northern Dynasties, in the 5th century; this was a variety of standard script which emerged from neo-clerical as well as from Zhong Yao's standard script^[4], and is called "Wei regular" (魏楷 Weikai). This article is about the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. The 5th century is the period from 401 to 500 in accordance with the Julian calendar in Anno Domini / Common Era. The Northern Wei Dynasty (北魏 Pinyin: běi wèi 386 - 534) also known as the Tuoba Wei (拓拔魏 Later Wei (後魏 or Thus, standard script had parentage in early semi-cursive as well as neo-clerical scripts.

Chinese characters of "Regular Script" in traditional characters (left) and in the simplified form (right).

Sheng Jiao Xu by Chu Suiliang: calligraphy of the Kaishu style. 其數然而天地苞/乎陰陽而易識者/以其有象也陰陽/處乎天地而難窮

The script is considered to have matured stylistically during the Tang Dynasty, with the most famous and oft-imitated regular script calligraphers of that period being:

• The early Tang four great calligraphers (初唐四大家):
  • Ouyang Xun(欧阳询)
  • Yu Shinan(虞世南)
  • Chu Suiliang(褚遂良)
  • Xue Ji (薛稷)
• "Yan-Liu" (“顏柳”)
  • Yan Zhenqing(颜真卿)
  • Liu Gongquan(柳公权)

Those regular script characters with width (or length) larger than 5 cm (2 in) is usually considered larger regular script, or dakai (大楷), and those smaller than 2 cm (0. The Tang Dynasty ( Middle Chinese: dhɑng (June 18 618&ndashJune 4 907 was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by Ouyang Xun ( 557-641 Courtesy name Xinben (信本 was a Confucian Scholar and Calligrapher of the early Tang Dynasty Yu Shinan ( 558–638 Courtesy name Boshi (伯施 was a master of Calligraphy in early Tang Dynasty. Chu Suiliang (褚遂良 (597-658 Courtesy name Dengshan (登善 formally Duke of Henan (河南公 was a chancellor of the Chinese Xue Ji (薛稷 ( 649 - July 29 713) Courtesy name Sitong (嗣通 was an official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty Biography Early life Yan Zhenqing was born in Linyi of Shandong Province to a reputed academic family which served the court for many generations Liu Gongquan ( 778–865 Courtesy name Chengxuan (诚悬 was a Chinese calligrapher who stood with Yan Zhenqing as the two great 8 in) usually small regular script, or xiaokai (小楷). Those in between are usually called medium regular script, or zhongkai (中楷). Or are compared in relation to those around.

Beginners often are recommended to start with the Eight Principles of Yong, which are said to contain the fundamentals of most, if not all, of the regular script calligraphy. The character 永 yǒng, "forever" Stroke order

Notable artifacts with the Regular Scripts include:

• The Records of Yao Boduo Sculpturing (姚伯多造像記) during the Southern and Northern Dynasties
• The Tablet of Guangwu General (廣武將軍碑) during the Southern and Northern Dynasties
• The Tablet of Longzang Temple (龍藏寺碑) of the Sui Dynasty
• Tombstone-Record of Sui Xiaoci (蘇孝慈墓誌) of the Sui Dynasty
• Tombstone-Record of Beauty Tong (董美人墓誌) of the Sui Dynasty

The Zhuyin used to annotate texts, although not true Chinese characters, are virtually always written in the regular script style as well. This article is about the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. This article is about the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. The Sui Dynasty ( 581 - 618 AD and in the undertaking of other construction projects including the reconstruction of the Great Wall. The Sui Dynasty ( 581 - 618 AD and in the undertaking of other construction projects including the reconstruction of the Great Wall. The Sui Dynasty ( 581 - 618 AD and in the undertaking of other construction projects including the reconstruction of the Great Wall.

References

• Qiú Xīguī (2000). Chinese Writing. Translation of 文字學概論 by Mattos and Norman. Early China Special Monograph Series No. 4. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. ISBN 1-55729-071-7.