草隶 cǎolì cursive and clerical scripts Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 草 cǎo adverbnoun cursive script cursive or shorthand style of writing characters, as in 狂草 kuángcǎo or 行草 xíngcǎo隶 隸 lì clerical script (bound form) the clerical style of Chinese calligraphy, also known as "scribe" style