锺繇 鍾繇

锺繇鍾繇 in English

zhōng yáo
Zhong Yao (151-230), minister of Cao Wei 曹魏 and noted calligrapher, said to have developed the regular script 楷书

Character breakdown

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 鍾, the traditional character: 锺 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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