草書

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草書

1. cursive script
   1. (calligraphy) a Chinese calligraphic style
   2. (by extension) cursive handwriting

Sometimes translated as grass script, mistaking the character 草 (cǎo) as meaning grass, when in fact it refers to writing which is careless; sloppy; hasty, for example the meaning implied in the compound words 潦草 (liáocǎo) and 草率 (cǎoshuài).

• 楷書／楷书 (kǎishū)
• 行書／行书 (xíngshū)
• 雞腸／鸡肠 (jīcháng)

• Tones of the Mandarin Dialect are Given in English and Chinese(【英語官話合講】)·字母 Origin of English grass script

From Middle Chinese 草書 (MC tshawX syo).

• (Tokyo) そーしょ [sòóshó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [so̞ːɕo̞]

草(そう)書(しょ) • (sōsho) ^{←さうしよ (sausyo)?}

1. grass script (cursive writing)

• 楷書(かいしょ) (kaisho)
• 行書(ぎょうしょ) (gyōsho)

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

草書 • (choseo) (hangeul 초서)

1. Hanja form^? of 초서 (“grass script”).

草書

1. chữ Hán form of thảo thư (“grass script”).