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Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 文房四寶 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 文房四宝 | ||||||||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 紙墨筆硯 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 纸墨笔砚 | ||||||||||||||||
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Vietnamese name | |||||||||||||||||
Vietnamese alphabet | văn phòng tứ bảo | ||||||||||||||||
Chữ Hán | 文房四寶 | ||||||||||||||||
Korean name | |||||||||||||||||
Hangul | 문방사우 | ||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 文房四友 | ||||||||||||||||
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Japanese name | |||||||||||||||||
Kanji | 文房四宝 | ||||||||||||||||
Kana | ぶんぼうしほう | ||||||||||||||||
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Four Treasures of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in Chinese calligraphy and spread into other East Asian[1][2][3] calligraphic traditions. The name appears to originate in the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420–589 AD).[4]