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  2. Chinese calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Learning to rub the ink is an essential part of calligraphy study. Traditionally, Chinese calligraphy is written only in black ink, but modern calligraphers sometimes use other colors. Calligraphy teachers use a bright orange or red ink with which they write practice characters on which students trace, or to correct students' work.

  3. Arabic script in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    the term "rectangular zero" is a translation of the Arabic name of this sign U+06E1 ۡ ‎ Arabic Small High Dotless Head Of Khah presentation form of 0652, using font technology to select the variant is preferred used in some Qurans to mark absence of a vowel= Arabic jazm → U+0652 ْ Arabic Sukun U+06E2 ۢ ‎

  4. Chinese character strokes - Wikipedia

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    永 'forever' or 'permanence', a Chinese character that represents a variety of strokes, and is often used to demonstrate the major stroke categories. Strokes (simplified Chinese: 笔画; traditional Chinese: 筆畫; pinyin: bǐhuà) are the smallest structural units making up written Chinese characters.

  5. Asemic writing - Wikipedia

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    Newsletter from Mirtha Dermisache [19]. Asemic writing occurs in avant-garde literature and art with strong roots in the earliest forms of writing. [20] The history of today's asemic movement stems from two Chinese calligraphers: "crazy" Zhang Xu, a Tang dynasty (c. 800 CE) calligrapher who was famous for creating wild illegible calligraphy, and the younger "drunk" monk Huaisu who also ...

  6. Naskh (script) - Wikipedia

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    Naskh [a] is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an, because of its easy legibility.

  7. Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy) - Wikipedia

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    Russian Vyaz Vyaz of the prayer 'It is truly meet to bless you,' with the individual words distinguished by different colours. Vyaz (Russian: вязь from вязать, vyazat'; Church Slavonic: вѩзати ⰲⱗⰸⰰⱅⰻ 'to bind, to tie') is a type of ancient decorative Cyrillic lettering, in which letters are linked into a continuous ornament.

  8. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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    Example reading "خط نڛتعليق" ("Nastaliq script") in Nastaliq. The dotted form ڛ ‎ is used in place of س ‎.. Nastaliq (/ ˌ n æ s t ə ˈ l iː k, ˈ n æ s t ə l iː k /; [2], Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq]), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some ...

  9. Turkish calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Turkish Reed Pen Wooden Calligraphy Tools, Ottoman Empire (Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) Calligraphy is a form of writing that requires a specific type of pen made from a special kind of reed, ink made from soot, and special papers in order to practice. The reed is split lengthwise and divided into thin strips.