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1. Beauty / Beautiful / Handsome
2. The farts of others stink, but one’s own smells sweet
5. Gunn
6. Feel at Ease Anywhere / The World is My Home
8. Iris Flower
9. Isaac
10. Love and Respect
11. Self-Control
13. Wild Rose
美 is often used to describe the beauty of a woman.
However, when applied to a man, it can mean handsome. It's also the first character in the word for “beauty salon” which you will see all over China and Japan.
This can be used as the given name for a girl (spell it or say it as “Mei” or “May”).
For a bit of trivia: The title for the “USA” in Chinese is “Mei Guo” which literally means “Beautiful Country.” This name was bestowed at a time before Chairman Mao came to power and decided that China didn't like the USA anymore (even though we fought together against the Japanese in WWII). But these days, Chinese people love Americans (but have a distaste for American politics and policy). But I digress...
美 is also how “Beautiful” is written in Japanese Kanji and Korean Hanja. 美 can also mean: very satisfactory; good; to be pleased with oneself; abbreviation for the USA; fine; handsome; admirable; madhura; sweet; and/or pleasant.
See Also: Beautiful Woman | Beautiful Girl
香 is the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja that means: fragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic; savory; appetizing; perfume; incense; aroma; fragrance; scent; good smell.
Fragrance or incense is known to be one of the Buddha's messengers to stimulate faith and devotion.
福宅 is perhaps the Chinese equivalent of “This blessed house” or perhaps “home sweet home.”
This phrase literally means “Good fortune house” or “Good luck household.” It makes any Chinese person who sees it feel that good things happen in the home in which this calligraphy is hung.
四海為家 literally reads, “Four Seas Serve-As [my/one's] Home.”
Together, 四海 which literally means “four seas” is understood to mean “the whole world” or “the seven seas.” It's presumed to be an ancient word from back when only four seas were known - so it equates to the modern English term, “seven seas.”
This can be translated or understood in a few different ways:
To regard the four corners of the world all as home.
To feel at home anywhere.
To roam about unconstrained.
To consider the entire country, or the world, to be one's own.
在家千日好出门一时难 is a Chinese proverb that literally means “At home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort but spending a day away from home can be challenging.”
Figuratively, this means “There's no place like home,” or roughly a Chinese version of “Home sweet home.”
菖蒲 is the title for the iris flower in Japanese.
If your name happens to be Iris, this is a nice way to express your name by meaning in Japanese (it will mean your name but not sound like your name).
Can also mean Siberian iris (Iris sanguinea) or sweet flag (Acorus calamus / Acorus gramineus) varieties.
Note: This will also be recognized in Chinese, though it is generally written with the addition of a character meaning "stone" in front of this title in Chinese.
敬愛 is the short and sweet way to say “love and respect” in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
Besides “respect and love,” this could be translated as “respect and affection,” “Reverence and love,” or “reverent love.”
In Japanese, this can also be the personal name Yoshinari.
The short and sweet version of self-control.
Note: This can also mean self-restraint.
See Also: Will-Power | Discipline
甘味 is sweet or sweetness in Chinese characters, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja. This refers to a sweet taste, sugary taste, or sweet flavor. It can also be a noun meaning sweets, dessert, or cake.
This can also refer to charm or appeal (of a woman or lovely thing).
野玫瑰 is the simplest way to write “wild rose” in Chinese.
The first word literally means wild. The second is the single-character form of rose or roses (plural or singular is not specified in Chinese characters). This can also be translated as “sweet briar.”
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Considerate of the Needs of Others
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Pure Heart
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Beauty Beautiful Handsome | 美 | bi | měi / mei3 / mei | |
The farts of others stink, but one’s own smells sweet | 別人屁臭自家香 别人屁臭自家香 | bié rén pì chòu zì jiā xiāng bie2 ren2 pi4 chou4 zi4 jia1 xiang1 bie ren pi chou zi jia xiang bierenpichouzijiaxiang | pieh jen p`i ch`ou tzu chia hsiang pieh jen pi chou tzu chia hsiang |
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Fragrant Good Smell | 香 | ka / kou / ka / ko | xiāng / xiang1 / xiang | hsiang |
House of Good Fortune | 福宅 | fú zhái / fu2 zhai2 / fu zhai / fuzhai | fu chai / fuchai | |
Gunn | 甘 | gān / gan1 / gan | kan | |
Feel at Ease Anywhere The World is My Home | 四海為家 四海为家 | sì hǎi wéi jiā si4 hai3 wei2 jia1 si hai wei jia sihaiweijia | ssu hai wei chia ssuhaiweichia |
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No Place Like Home | 在家千日好出門一時難 在家千日好出门一时难 | zài jiā qiān rì hǎo chū mén yì shí nán zai4 jia1 qian1 ri4 hao3 chu1 men2 yi4 shi2 nan2 zai jia qian ri hao chu men yi shi nan | tsai chia ch`ien jih hao ch`u men i shih nan tsai chia chien jih hao chu men i shih nan |
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Iris Flower | 菖蒲 | ayame / shoubu ayame / shobu | chāng pú / chang1 pu2 / chang pu / changpu | ch`ang p`u / changpu / chang pu |
Isaac | 伊薩克 伊萨克 | yī sà kè yi1 sa4 ke4 yi sa ke yisake | i sa k`o isako i sa ko |
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Love and Respect | 敬愛 敬爱 | kei ai / keiai | jìng ài / jing4 ai4 / jing ai / jingai | ching ai / chingai |
Self-Control | 自制 | jisei | zì zhì / zi4 zhi4 / zi zhi / zizhi | tzu chih / tzuchih |
Sweet Sweetness Charm | 甘味 | kanmi / amami / umami | gān wèi / gan1 wei4 / gan wei / ganwei | kan wei / kanwei |
Wild Rose | 野玫瑰 | yě méi guì ye3 mei2 gui4 ye mei gui yemeigui | yeh mei kuei yehmeikuei |
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Hold Hands with You, Grow Old with You | 執子之手與子偕老 执子之手与子偕老 | zhí zǐ zhī shǒu yǔ zǐ xié lǎo zhi2 zi3 zhi1 shou3 yu3 zi3 xie2 lao3 zhi zi zhi shou yu zi xie lao zhizizhishouyuzixielao | chih tzu chih shou yü tzu hsieh lao | |
No Place Like Home | 故郷忘じ難し | kokyouboujigatashi kokyobojigatashi | ||
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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