There are six major Chinese calligraphic scripts or styles used write Chinese, Japanese kanji, and Korean .

Printed Chinese characters are usually based on "Regular" Script Kaishu.

There I've given you the first one!

Many street and shop signs use "clerical" script which is called ... what in Chinese?

There are two other scripts that omit some strokes.

One has a name referring to plants and the other a name in English that describes its tendency to change angles into ...

The other two are more archaic aND nowadays their major use is on a certain type of small carved stone ...

Please do not just make a list of links.

Write something that suggests you actually have done calligraphy or at least read all the way thru whatever article you googled.

Do not list the 6 Semantic types of characters!!!

You can use Wades Giles Pinyin Yale or the Japanese names of the script forms in your answer.

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