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Clerical script

Index Clerical script

The clerical script, sometimes also chancery script, is a style of Chinese writing that evolved from the late Warring States period to the Qin dynasty. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 38 relations: Bamboo and wooden slips, Book of Han, Bronze Age, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese character strokes, Chinese script styles, Cursive script (East Asia), Deng Shiru, Eastern Han Chinese, Flickr, Han dynasty, Iron Age, Jin Nong, Ladislav Zgusta, Libian, Logogram, Ming dynasty, Northern and Southern dynasties, Old Chinese, Oracle bone script, Postface, Qin (state), Qin dynasty, Qin Shi Huang, Qing dynasty, Qingchuan County, Qiu Xigui, Regular script, Seal script, Semi-cursive script, Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts, Shuowen Jiezi, Six Dynasties, Small seal script, Stele, Tang dynasty, Warring States period, Wu Qiuyan.

  2. Chinese script style
  3. Logographic writing systems

Bamboo and wooden slips

Bamboo and wooden slips are long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo, each typically holding a single column of several dozen brush-written characters.

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Book of Han

The Book of Han is a history of China finished in 111 CE, covering the Western, or Former Han dynasty from the first emperor in 206 BCE to the fall of Wang Mang in 23 CE.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form, combining purely visual art and interpretation of the literary meaning. This type of expression has been widely practiced in China and has been generally held in high esteem across East Asia. Calligraphy is considered one of the four most-sought skills and hobbies of ancient Chinese literati, along with playing stringed musical instruments, the board game "Go", and painting.

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Chinese character strokes

Strokes are the smallest structural units making up written Chinese characters.

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Chinese script styles

Chinese characters may be written using one of five major styles, can be written according to five major styles which developed organically over the history of Chinese script. Clerical script and Chinese script styles are Chinese script style.

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Cursive script (East Asia)

Cursive script (cǎoshū;, sōshotai;, choseo), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy. Clerical script and Cursive script (East Asia) are Chinese script style and Logographic writing systems.

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Deng Shiru

Deng Shirú (Teng Shih-ju, traditional: 鄧石如, simplified: 邓石如); c. 1739/1743–1805 was a Chinese calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).

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Eastern Han Chinese

Eastern Han Chinese (alternatively Later Han Chinese or Late Old Chinese) is the stage of the Chinese language attested in poetry and glosses from the Eastern Han period (1st–3rd centuries AD).

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Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Jin Nong

Born in 1687 in Hangzhou, Jin Nong (金農) became popular as a painter and calligrapher while living as a childless widower in Yangzhou in his sixties.

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Ladislav Zgusta

Ladislav Zgusta (20 March 1924 in Libochovice – 27 April 2007 in Urbana, Illinois) was a Czech-American historical linguist and lexicographer, who wrote one of the first textbooks on lexicography.

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Libian

Libian refers to the gradual, systematic simplification of Chinese character forms during the 2nd century BC, by which the Chinese writing system transitioned from the seal script character forms to clerical script characters during the early Han dynasty period, through the process of making omissions, additions, or transmutations of the graphical form of a character to make it easier to write. Clerical script and Libian are Chinese script style.

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Logogram

In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme. Clerical script and logogram are Logographic writing systems.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Northern and Southern dynasties

The Northern and Southern dynasties was a period of political division in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Eastern Jin dynasty.

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Old Chinese

Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.

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Oracle bone script

Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC. Clerical script and Oracle bone script are Chinese script style.

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Postface

A postface is the opposite of a preface, a brief article or explanatory information placed at the end of a book.

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Qin (state)

Qin (or Ch'in) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Qin dynasty

The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China.

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Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang (February 25912 July 210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Qingchuan County

Qingchuan County is a county in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, bordering the provinces of Gansu to the north and Shaanxi to the northeast.

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Qiu Xigui

Qiu Xigui (born 13July 1935) is a Chinese historian, palaeographer, and professor of Fudan University.

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Regular script

The regular script is the newest of the major Chinese script styles, emerging during the Three Kingdoms period, and stylistically mature by the 7th century. Clerical script and regular script are Chinese script style.

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Seal script

Seal script or sigillary script is a style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC. Clerical script and Seal script are Chinese script style and Logographic writing systems.

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Semi-cursive script

Semi-cursive script, also known as running script, is a style of Chinese calligraphy that emerged during the Han dynasty (202 BC220 AD). Clerical script and Semi-cursive script are Chinese script style and Logographic writing systems.

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Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts

The Shuihudi Qin bamboo texts are early Chinese texts written on bamboo slips, and are also sometimes called the Yúnmèng Qin bamboo texts.

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Shuowen Jiezi

The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE).

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Six Dynasties

Six Dynasties (220–589 or 222–589) is a collective term for six Han Chinese-ruled Chinese dynasties that existed from the early 3rd century AD to the late 6th century AD, between the end of the Han dynasty and beginning of the Sui dynasty.

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Small seal script

The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. Clerical script and small seal script are Chinese script style.

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Stele

A stele,From Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai; the plural in English is sometimes stelai based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles.) or occasionally stela (stelas or stelæ) when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Warring States period

The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.

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Wu Qiuyan

Wu Qiuyan (1268–1311), also known as Wuyan, courtesy name Zixing, art name Zhenbai, Zhufang and Zhusu, using the alternative names Buyi Daoist and Zhenbai Hermit, and with the scholar name Shenghua Fang. In the early Qing dynasty, he avoided using the given name of Confucius (孔丘), so he adopted the name Wu Qiuyan, and he was commonly referred to as Mr.

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See also

Chinese script style

Logographic writing systems

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_script

Also known as Chancery script, Clerical calligraphy, Official script calligraphy, Official script style, Official-script calligraphy, Reisho, .