How many fonts are there in Chinese characters?

Chinese characters have countless fonts. But commonly used Chinese fonts include but are not limited to Song Dynasty, regular script, cursive script, official script and running script.

1, arial:

Pine nuts originated in the Song Dynasty, but were established in the Ming Dynasty, so they are still called "Ming style" in Japan.

The font is square, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, the thickness is clear, the edges and corners are sharp, rigorous, neat and even, and the strokes are regular, which makes people feel comfortable and eye-catching when reading. In modern printing, it is mainly used for the text of books and periodicals or newspapers.

2. In italics:

Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. Li Shu, founded by Cheng Miao, has gradually evolved and become more simplified and level. Ci Hai is interpreted as "square and straight, which can be used as a model." Hence the name regular script.

It started at the end of the Han Dynasty and has been popular ever since. The appearance of regular script follows closely Han Li's composition and pursues the further development of formal beauty. During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of Han Dynasty, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed from wave to wave, and became "left" (dot), "sweep" (long left), "peck" (short left) and "lift" (straight hook).

Regular script is characterized by neat rules and is a model in fonts, so it is called regular script and has been used ever since.

3, cursive script:

Fonts produced for writing convenience. It began in the early Han Dynasty. At that time, it was "Cao Li", that is, scribbled official script, which gradually developed into a kind of "Cao Zhang" with artistic value.

Before the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Cao Zhang" to "modern grass", and the character style was formed in one stroke. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into "weeds", with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.

Modern Lin Sanzhi, Li Zhimin and Yu Youren have the reputation of "sage of grass". Lin Sanzhi's representative works include Sino-Japanese Friendship Poem and Xu Yao's Cursive Poem on Huai Su, among which the Sino-Japanese Friendship Poem is called "the first cursive poem in Lin Sanzhi".

4. Official script:

Official script is also called "official character" and "ancient book". It is a font produced on the basis of seal script to meet the needs of convenient writing. The seal script is simplified, and the uniform circle lines of the seal script are changed into straight strokes, which is convenient for writing. This is a font created in prison

Official script is a common solemn font in Chinese characters, with a slightly flat writing effect, long horizontal drawing and short straight drawing, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns". It originated in the Qin Dynasty and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Calligraphy is known as "Han Li Tang Kai".

5. Run the script:

Running script is a writing style between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late Western Han Dynasty and the early Eastern Han Dynasty. It is to make up for the shortcomings of slow writing in regular script and illegible cursive script.

The brushwork is not as sloppy as cursive script, and it is not required to be as correct as regular script. There are more methods of mold opening than cursive writing, which is called "mold opening". Cursive calligraphy is more than modular method, which is called "cursive calligraphy". Running script began in the late Han Dynasty.