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Among the handwriting styles 章草, 今草 and 狂草, 今草 is the most frequently used. However, compared with 今草, 行书 is even more popular.
That's because:
章草 is the rapid writing of 隶书. Currently, Chinese teachers don't teach 隶书 in primary schools for its old style. Only calligraphy amateurs and experts would learn 隶书 so as 章草.
今草 is based on 楷书 -- 楷书 is formally ...
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To answer your question, we need to clearly understand how Traditional Chinese characters got simplified, which I bet 99.999999% of the whole Chinese population don't even know about.
This is a very big topic that I am not able to discuss about it in detail. So I will give a much simplified explanation.
Consider these 2 sets: Traditional Characters vs ...
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I can think of the following reasons why you might encounter them (in order of appropriateness):
Proper names, especially family names whose bearers want to maintain a tradition
Linguistic text about the other kind of character
Simplified handwriting in Taiwanese or Japanese
Careless copy-and-pasting from 2 sources
Do you have any specific case they ...
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Consider traditional and simplified characters as two sets with a mapping between them. I'll refer to to simplified as S and traditional as T. Let's call the mapping M, and we'll say (s,t) ∈ M if there's a mapping from s ∈ S to t ∈ T. So, for example, we have
为 ∈ S
為 ∈ T
(为,為) ∈ M
One obvious question: Are S and T disjoint? No, they are not. For example, ...
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We may sort chinese name into the situations as follow:
-1.Contain elements from nature scenery or living
beings----------------------------mainly for female
ex:
last name+ 桃(peach, recline to its flower meaning)
云（cloud）
天(sky)
梅(plum)
莺(warbler)
Kind of old-fashioned, almost every woman in early 70s 80s ...
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