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    隷書

    隷れい書しょ

    clerical script (ancient, highly angular style of kanji)

    KMT10News #41+1NounArt & DesignHistoryKanji Vocab26 strokes

    れいしょ

    Noun

    1.
    clerical script (ancient, highly angular style of kanji)

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    隷れい書しょは漢かん字じの書しょ体たいの一ひとつです。

    Clerical script is one style of kanji calligraphy.

    KMT8Art & DesignHistory
    彼かれは隷れい書しょを専せん門もんとする書しょ道どう家かだ。

    He is a calligrapher specializing in clerical script.

    KMT10Art & DesignCulture & Traditions
    隷れい書しょは秦しんの時じ代だいに発ハッ展テンし、漢かんの時じ代だいに完カン成セイされた。

    Clerical script developed during the Qin dynasty and was perfected during the Han dynasty.

    KMT10HistoryArt & Design
    博はく物ぶつ館かんには、美うつくしい隷れい書しょで書かかれた古こ代だいの石せき碑ひが展てん示じされている。

    Ancient stone monuments written in beautiful clerical script are displayed in the museum.

    KMT10Art & DesignHistory
    隷れい書しょは、現げん在ざいの楷かい書しょや行ぎょう書しょの基き礎そとなった重じゅう要ような書しょ体たいである。

    Clerical script is an important calligraphic style that became the foundation for current regular script and semi-cursive script.

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    Kanji that make up this word

    隷
    したが.う・しもべ…(1)
    slave・servant・prisoner・criminal・follower
    書
    か.く・-が.き・-がき…(2)
    write
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