Ancient forms of writing originating from Asia, dating to the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600-1046 BCE). Chinese calligraphy evolved from pictographs into the many characters that are written today. Early characters or pictographs have been discovered inscribed into pottery or bone dating back over 4000 years ago. There are five main types of Chinese calligraphy: seal script (zhuan-shu); official script know as clerical script (li-shu); block script called regular script or (kai-shu); semi-cursive script called running script (xing-shu); and cursive script known as grass script or (cao-shu).

源於亞洲的傳統書寫形式，時代可上溯自中國商朝（約西元前1600年~西元前1046年）。中國書法是由象形文字演變而來，許多字體至今仍沿用。早期的文字是刻在陶器或甲骨上，出土時間距今已逾4000年。中國書法主要可分為五類：篆書、隸書、楷書、行書、草書。

Chinese scripts(P,,U,English-P,D,U,NA)
中國書體(P,,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
中國書體(P,,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,NA)
中國文字(,U,Chinese (traditional)-NP,UF,U,U)
漢文(,U,Chinese (traditional)-NP,UF,U,U)
中國書法(,U,Chinese (traditional)-NP,UF,U,U)
chung kuo shu t'i(P,,V,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,NA)
chung kuo shu t'i (P,,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)
zhōng guó shū tǐ(P,,V,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,NA)
zhōng guó shū tǐ(,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-NP,UF,U,U)
zhōng guó shū tǐ (P,,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
zhong guo shu ti(P,,V,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,NA)
zhong guo shu ti (P,,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)

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........Components (Hierarchy Name)
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........................<script and type forms>
............................scripts (writing)
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....................................Chinese scripts