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‖ ts'ao shu|tsau ʃu|
Also cao shu, tsaou shoo.
[Chinese cāoshū, f. cāo hasty + shū writing.]
In Chinese calligraphy, a cursive script developed during the Han dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) from the ‘official’ script.
1876Encycl. Brit. V. 655/2 The Tsaou shoo or ‘grass character’. 1910Ibid. VI. 220/2 Out of the ‘official script’ two other forms were soon developed, namely the..ts‘ao shu, or ‘grass character’, [etc.]. 1974J.-F. L. Chang in T. C. Lai Chinese Calligraphy (1975) p. xiii, Ts'ao Shu or Cursive Script..was originally developed as a quicker version of the Official Script during the second century A.D. 1978Nagel's Encycl.-Guide: China 326 Cao shu is a style in which the characters are abbreviated, giving free reign to the movement. The economy of style is often such that it is hard to read for all but the initiated. |