Clerical Script - Name

Name

The etymology of the Chinese name for the script lìshū (simplified Chinese: 隶书; traditional Chinese: 隸書) is uncertain. Lì meant a slave or prisoner serving the state, and thus, some infer that the script was used in recording the affairs related to such slaves, while others infer that it was used by prisoners conscripted as scribes.

Read more about this topic:  Clerical Script

Famous quotes containing the word name:

    “What is it? a learned man
    Could give it a clumsy name.
    Let him name it who can,
    The beauty would be the same.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)