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Mao Zedong signature
Three Chinese characters form a wide horizontal mark.
What does Mao Zedong’s signature look like?
Three Chinese characters form a wide horizontal mark. Broad dark strokes alternate with isolated dots and narrower connecting movements, with an especially long diagonal reaching above the middle.
- Slant
- +3°near upright
- Baseline
- +3.7°rising
- Width / height
- 2.80 : 1overall proportions
- Opening height
- 1.47×opening versus body letters
Three Chinese characters with broad separated gestures
Three Chinese characters form a wide horizontal mark. Broad dark strokes alternate with isolated dots and narrower connecting movements, with an especially long diagonal reaching above the middle. Compare each character’s occupied space with the gaps between them: the image’s structure comes from distinct character gestures rather than a Latin capital and lowercase name band.
Mao Zedong signature analysis
Mao Zedong’s signature sample has an almost upright slant, a rising baseline and 1 enclosed loop. Use the layers to follow the writing line, letter band, slant and enclosed loops.
- Slantnear upright
- +3°
- Baselinerising
- +3.7°
- Width / heightoverall proportions
- 2.80 : 1
- Opening heightopening versus body letters
- 1.47×
- Enclosed loopsclosed spaces in the image
- 1
- Ink groupsmain disconnected groups
- 7
- Ink densityinside the signature bounds
- 19.3%
- Underlineno long lower flourish
- None
- Finish heightrelative to the letter body
- +0.09×
Opening, letter body and finish
The opening stays near the height of the body letters. The opening-to-body ratio is 1.47×, while the whole image is 2.80 times as wide as it is tall. The rightmost ink finishes above the writing line; look at this ending separately from the slant of the letters themselves.
Loops and the lower flourish
The sample contains 1 enclosed loop and 7 main ink groups. The letterforms carry the main horizontal movement; there is no long lower underline detected beneath their band.
Mao Zedong’s signature in graphology
Traditional graphology associates broad extended gestures with public emphasis. Latin capital-size interpretations fit these Chinese characters only loosely; the visible contrasts here are the large diagonals, rounded returns and separate marks.
Follow the near-upright strokes in this image alongside the smaller body letters. For another perspective on your own writing, the handwriting analysis tool brings slant, size and spacing into a full-page reading.
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