Cursive script (East Asia)

Cursive script
Mi Fu's On Calligraphy, a written discourse about the cursive style
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese草書
Simplified Chinese草书
Literal meaningdraft script
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyincǎoshū
Bopomofoㄘㄠˇ ㄕㄨ
Wade–Gilests'ao3 shu1
IPA[tsʰàʊ.ʂú]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingcou2 syu1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJchhó-chir
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetthảo thư
chữ thảo
Hán-Nôm草書
𡨸草
Korean name
Hangul초서
Hanja草書
Japanese name
Kanji草書体
Cursive script
Related scripts
Parent systems
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Cursive script (Chinese: 草書, 草书, 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]

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.

  1. ^ "caoshu | Chinese calligraphy | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-05-03.

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