To engrave Chinese characters, you also need the experience of practicing calligraphy besides engraving.

Elementary school students practice calligraphy in this way, as do elders practicing temporary calligraphy, without aspiring to artistic creation.

Her mother, Renukamoyee Mazumdar, though unlettered, practiced calligraphy at nights.

In this period, the eight-year-old boy practiced calligraphy with phrases wishing for peace throughout the world.

She was very intelligent, lived out the Dao through chants, poems, and practicing calligraphy, and she was devoted to the rites and rules of propriety.

At 7, he appeared onstage in his father's productions and the three brothers practiced calligraphy every day.

All along, Mr. Wang practiced calligraphy and painted, developing a style that was a blend of traditional Chinese calligraphy and contemporary work.

Influenced by her father's love of sumi [ink] painting, calligraphy and Chinese poetry, Shinoda practiced calligraphy since she was six.

His father, who worked in a state-run bookstore, fit the classic type of the scholar-artist: he was a landscape painter, practiced calligraphy and revered Chinese history.

Shalindra had been practicing calligraphy, lest her work stiffen her fingers till she also lost that equally useless art.