Semi-cursive script

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semi-cursive script
Type	Logographic
Spoken languages	Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, Spoken Chinese
Time period	Han Dynasty to present
Parent systems	oracle bone script seal script clerical script cursive script semi-cursive script
Child systems	regular script Zhuyin Simplified Chinese Chu Nom Khitan script Jurchen script Tangut script
Unicode range	4E00–9FFF, 3400–4DBF, 20000–2A6DF, 2A700–2B734, 2F00–2FDF, F900–FAFF
ISO 15924	Hani, Hans, Hant
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Semi-cursive script
Chinese characters of "Semi-cursive Script" in regular script (left) and semi-cursive script (right).
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	行書
Transliterations Hakka - Romanization hang11 su24 Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Xíngshū Min - Hokkien POJ hâng-su Wu - Romanization ghaon平 sy平 Cantonese - Jyutping hang4 syu1
Japanese name
Kanji	行書
Kana	ぎょうしょ
Transliterations - Romaji gyōsho
Korean name
Hangul	행서
Hanja	行書
Transliterations - Revised Romanization haengseo

Chinese characters

Precursors

Traditional Chinese

Variant characters

Simplified Chinese

Simplified Chinese (2nd-round)

Traditional/Simplified (debate)

Kanji

Man'yōgana

Hanja

Idu

Hán tự

Chữ Nôm

East Asian calligraphy

Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Seal script Clerical script Standard script Semi-cursive script Cursive script

Input methods

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Semi-cursive script is a partially cursive style of Chinese calligraphy.

Also referred to in English both as running script and by its Mandarin Chinese name, xíngshū, it is derived from clerical script, and was for a long time after its development in the first centuries AD the usual style of handwriting.

Some of the best examples of semi-cursive can be found in the work of Wang Xizhi (321-379) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

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