The characters "仿宋體" in a modern imitation Song typeface Chinese characters
Written Chinese Kanji Hanja Chữ Hán
Scripts and style
Precursors
Oracle-bone
Bronze
Seal (
Bird-worm Large Small )
Clerical
libian
Cursive
Semi-cursive
Regular
Flat brush
Typefaces
Imitation Song
Ming
Sans-serif
Properties and
classification
Components Strokes (
order )
Radicals
Collation and standards
Character-form standards
Jiu zixing Xin zixing
Kangxi Dictionary forms (1716)
General Standard Chinese Characters (mainland China, 2013)
Graphemes of Commonly-used Chinese characters (Hong Kong, 2007)
Standard Form of National Characters (Taiwan, 1982)
Grapheme -usage standards
General Standard Characters (PRC, 2013)
Jōyō kanji (Japan, 2010)
Other standards
Standardized Forms of Words with Variant Forms (PRC, 2002)
Nan Min Recommended Characters (Taiwan, 2009)
Previous standards
Commonly-used Characters (PRC, 1988)
Tōyō kanji (Japan, 1946)
Reforms
China
Clerical reforms
Traditional characters
Simplified characters (
first round second round )
Debate
Japan
Kyūjitai
Shinjitai
Ryakuji
Korea
Yakja
Singapore
Table of Simplified Characters
Homographs and readings
Literary and colloquial readings
Variants
Graphemic variants
Zetian characters
Derived systems
Slavonic transcription
Nüshu
Kana (
Hiragana Katakana )
Man'yōgana
Jurchen script
Khitan large script Khitan small script
Idu script
Bopomofo
Sawndip
Chữ Nôm
Chinese family of scripts (
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v t e Imitation Song is a style of Chinese typefaces modeled after a type style in Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty . They are technically a type of regular script typeface. It is the standard typeface used in official government documents texts in China,[1] civil drawings in both China and Taiwan.
Name
The name of this kind of typeface varies across regions that use Chinese characters.
In Chinese, it is called fǎng Sòngtǐ (仿宋體 /仿宋体 , "imitation Song form").
In Japanese, it is called Sōchōtai (宋朝体 , "Song Dynasty form").
Characteristics
Characteristics of imitation Song typefaces include:
The basic structure of regular script .
Relatively straight strokes, with horizontal strokes slanting up slightly.
Low stroke width variation between horizontal and vertical strokes, with strokes usually being relatively thin.
Overall geometrical regularity.
History
A page of a publication from Chén zhái shūjí bù . The printing industry from the Tang Dynasty reached an apex in the Song Dynasty ,[2] during which there were three major areas of production:
When Song lost control of northern China to the Jin (金) dynasty , its capital was moved to Lin'an (modern Hangzhou ), where there was a revival of printing, especially literature from Tang left in what was conquered by the Jin Dynasty. Many publishers were established in Lin'an, including Chén zhái shūjí bù (陳宅書籍鋪) established by Chen Qi (Chinese : 陳起 ; pinyin : Chén Qǐ ),[2] from which publications used a distinct style of regular script with orderly, straight strokes. Modern typefaces of this style are classified as imitation Song typefaces (Chinese : 仿宋體 ).