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Seal script tended towards uniformity of stroke width, but clerical script gave the brush freer rein, returning to the variations in width seen in early ZhР•РЊu brushwork. Compared with the preceding seal script, forms are strikingly rectilinear however, some curvature and some seal script influence often remains. The clerical script (often simply termed lР“В¬shР•В« and sometimes called 'official', 'draft', or 'scribal' script) is popularly thought to have developed in the HР“В n dynasty and to have come directly from seal script, but recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship indicate that it instead developed from a roughly executed and rectilinear popular or РІР‚ВvulgarРІР‚в„ў variant of the seal script as well as from seal script itself, resulting first in a РІР‚Вproto-clericalРІР‚в„ў version in the Warring States period to Qin dynasty, which then developed into clerical script in the early Western HР“В n dynasty, and matured stylistically thereafter.Р”В¬lerical script characters are often 'flat' in appearance, being wider than the preceding seal script and the modern standard script, both of which tend to be taller than they are wide some versions of clerical are square, and others are wider. However, because seals act like legal signatures in the cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and because vermillion seal impressions are a fundamental part of the presentation of works of art such as calligraphy and painting, seals and therefore seal script remain ubiquitous. Most people today cannot read the seal script, so it is considered an РІР‚ВancientРІР‚в„ў script, generally not used outside the fields of calligraphy and carved seals. Although seals (name chops), which make a signature-like impression, are carved in wood, jade and other materials, the script itself was originally written with brush and ink on bamboo books and other media, just like all other ancient scripts. Today, this style of Chinese writing is used predominantly in seals, hence the English name.

Although some modern calligraphers practice the most ancient oracle bone script as well as various other scripts older than seal script found on ZhР•РЊu dynasty bronze inscriptions, seal script is the oldest style that continues to be widely practiced. The seal script (often called 'small seal' script) is the formal script of the QР“Вn system of writing, which evolved during the Eastern ZhР•РЊu dynasty in the state of QР“Вn and was imposed as the standard in areas QР“Вn gradually conquered. In Vietnam, recent calligraphy tends to use chР±В»Р‡ QuР±В»вЂc ngР±В»Р‡ in parallel with chР±В»Р‡ HР“РЋn and chР±В»Р‡ NР“Т‘m. In Korea, the post- Korean War period saw the increased use of hangul, the Korean alphabet, in calligraphy. 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. 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.

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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. Styles Main styles of Chinese character calligraphy