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| Type | Logographic |
| Languages | Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, Modern Chinese |
| Time period | Han Dynasty to present |
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oracle bone script
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| 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 |
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| Chinese characters of "Semi-cursive Script" in regular script (left) and semi-cursive script (right). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 行書 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 행서 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 行書 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 行書 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kana | ぎょうしょ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Semi-cursive script is a cursive style of Chinese characters. Because it is not as abbreviated as cursive, most people who can read regular script can read semi-cursive.
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 1st 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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