Styles
| English name | Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese |
Chinese | Chinese, Mandarin | Japanese | Korean | Korean | Vietnamese |
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| Seal script (Small seal) |
篆書 | 篆书 | Zhuànshū | Tensho | 전서 | Jeonseo | Triện thư |
| Clerical script (Official script) | 隸書 (Jpn: 隷書) |
隶书 | Lìshū | Reisho | 예서 | Yeseo | Lệ thư |
| Semi-cursive script (Running script) |
行書 | 行书 | Xíngshū | Gyōsho | 행서 | Haengseo | Hành thư |
| Cursive script (Grass script) | 草書 | 草书 | Cǎoshū | Sōsho | 초서 | Choseo | Thảo thư |
| Regular script (Standard script) | 楷書 | 楷书 | Kǎishū | Kaisho | 해서 | Haeseo | Khải thư |
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When used in decorative ornamentation, such as book covers, movie posters, and wall hangings, characters are often written in ancient variations or simplifications that deviate from the modern standards used in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese or Korean. Modern variations or simplifications of characters, akin to Chinese Simplified characters or Japanese shinjitai, are occasionally used, especially since some simplified forms derive from cursive script shapes in the first place.
The Japanese syllabaries of katakana and hiragana are used in calligraphy; the katakana were derived from the shapes of regular script characters and hiragana from those of cursive script. In Korea, the post-Korean War period saw the increased use of hangul, the Korean alphabet, in calligraphy.
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