As a child he practiced calligraphy copybooks every day.
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帖 has three readings: tiě (invitation/copybook), tiē (obedient, as in 服帖), and tiè (calligraphy model, as in 碑帖). The most common modern usage is tiě, especially in 帖子 (post/message).
usage
In modern internet Chinese, 帖子 (tiězi) means a forum post or message thread. 发帖 (fātiě) means to post, 回帖 (huítiě) means to reply to a post.
