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'''Semi-cursive script''', also known as '''running script''', is a style of [[Chinese calligraphy]] that emerged during the [[Han dynasty]] (202{{sBC}}&nbsp;BC{{snd}}220{{sAD}}&nbsp;AD). The style is used to write [[Chinese characters]] and is abbreviated slightly where a character's strokes are permitted to be visibly connected as the writer writes, but not to the extent of the [[Cursive script (East Asia)|cursive style]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web |access-date=2021-08-14 |title=5 script styles in Chinese Calligraphy |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~xc2282/calligraphy/calligraphy.html |website=www.columbia.edu}}</ref> This makes the style easily readable by readers who can read [[regular script]] and quickly writable by calligraphers who require ideas to be written down quickly.<ref name=":0" /> In order to produce legible work using the semi-cursive style, a series of writing conventions is followed, including the linking of the strokes, simplification and merging strokes, adjustments to stroke order and the distribution of text of the work.<ref name=":1" />

One of the most notable calligraphers who used this style was [[Wang Xizhi]] (303–361). Wang is known for the ''[[Lantingji Xu]]'' ('Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection'), a work published in 353 which remains highly influential to calligraphers throughout the [[Sinosphere]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Wendan |title=Chinese Writing and Calligraphy |year=2010 |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press |isbn=978-0-824-86069-1}}</ref> Semi-cursive script is prominent in modern Chinese society despite the lack of official education for it, a status aided by the introduction of [[fountain pen]]s.