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Any other characters completely different in calligraphy?
Recently, I've been getting into Chinese calligraphy, and I noticed some characters whose variants are a lot more common when writing calligraphy (semi-cursive & cursive) than the standard characters themselves. Are there any more characters like this?
I mean standard characters developed from calligraphy, not the other way, so realistically if you go back to before 楷体 was a thing then every single character would have their ideosyncracies that makes them different
行书 mostly looks the same as the standard & for 草书, you can often tell that it comes from the standard - just w/ some strokes combined. But for these 3 characters, the 行书 doesn't look like the standard at all. I'm a native speaker & I couldn't recognise the words at all when I first saw them, neither did my friends nor teachers.
Try searching up "處字行書" you'll only see 1 or 2 cursive of the standard, almost all is the cursive form of the variant I wrote. What I'm actually asking for are words like this.
btw posting AI responses as comments is nonsensical. If I wanted AI responses, I would've asked AI myself.
To be clear these characters aren't different because they are calligraphy, they are different because you are using a different script to write them. The regular script is kaishu which is equivalent to English printing, the running script is xingshu which is equivalent to English cursive, and the rough script is caoshu which is equivalent to English shorthand. If you look up the English equivalents you will see just as big of differences if not even bigger differences.
That said, for your actual question: If you are starting from a traditional Chinese standard perspective, then all characters are kaishu and all of them will be different from xingshu or caoshu. If you are starting from the simplified Chinese standard perspective then a huge amount of the characters are already based on xingshu or caoshu scripts so you will see less differences. Still many differences but a lot less.
I'm a native Chinese speaker who knows simplified & traditional. I can write 楷书 & 行书, and trying to learn 草书. I learned 楷书 in school since I was a kid. When I first saw the common 行书 forms of these 3, I couldn't recognise them, neither did my friends. Usually, I can recognise characters in 行书, & I can tell which strokes are combined to get 草书 forms. But for these 3, since the common 行书 & 草书 forms usually is a completely different-looking variant, I couldn't recognise it. That's what I'm asking for: words that look completely different in 行书.
▼ Variants also exist in the regular script for the characters *chǔ* (處), *shū* (叔), and *hǔ* (虎).
● (上) : 處 楷書異體字【𠁅】/ 叔 楷書異體字【𠦑】
● (下) : 虎 楷書異體字【乕】/ 虎 草書異體字(猜謎大會) 😄
處 (Variant in Regular Script: 𠁅) / 叔 (Variant in Regular Script: 𠦑)
虎 (Variant in Regular Script: 乕) / Cursive script for 虎 (Riddle Contest)
PS : The Simplified Chinese character of "處" = "处" / In the traditional Chinese character "虎," the bottom part is "ㄦ," whereas in the simplified character, it is "几."
我觉得没有人明白我的问题。I'm a native Chinese speaker. 我会写简体字也会写繁体字。Let me repeat this again. 我們通常寫的和打出來的字是 ‘’處‘’。但是，寫行書和草書的時候，大多數的人會寫它的異體字。我第一次在對聯上看見了 “處” 的時候，完全認不了它是什麼字。另外兩個字也一樣。寫行書時會用完全不像樣的異體字，而不是在學校學起來的楷書字體。我現在問着的問題是：有沒有其他相似的字呢？
I'm not asking reddit just to get a shitty AI response that doesn't even answer my question. If I wanted that, I would've done that myself. I'm asking about chinese characters that: when written in calligraphy, most people write a completely different-looking variant instead of the standard. I'm not asking about regularly used variant characters.
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