Adventures in Asian Art
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| 1. God Daughter 2. Mother and Daughter 3. Baby 4. Beauty / Beautiful |
5. Beautiful Girl 6. Beautiful Woman 7. Mother and Son 8. Strong Woman |
![]() ![]() This is the title for a female child in which you have a sworn duty to raise, should the girl's parents die. The second character specifically designates that we are talking about a female child, thus the title God Daughter. See Also... Family ![]() This simply means "mother and daughter" kind of as a unit, or as if mother and daughter are a whole together. See Also... Mother And Son This is how Chinese people express "baby". It's the same character twice, and therefore literally means "double precious" or "double treasure". ![]() This a common two-Kanji way to write "baby" in Japanese. This can also be translated as "infant" or "suckling baby". ![]() This one way that Japanese people express "baby". This word is often used to describe the beauty of a woman. It's also the first character in the word for "beauty salon" which you will see all over China. See Also... Beautiful Woman | Beautiful Girl ![]() ![]() This is the best and most polite way to express "beautiful woman" in Chinese. See Also... Beautiful Girl | Beauty ![]() This simply means "mother and son", or the essence of the relationship and bond between mother and son. See Also... Mother And Daughter ![]() This is the best way to say "strong woman" or "strong and independent woman" in Chinese. |
A young girl relaxes with her goats, as she meditates and contemplates her life.
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"Hot" or "Heat" is the translation of the simple Chinese title of this piece. This girl is braving the heat of the day as best she can.
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"Hot" or "Heat" is the translation of the simple Chinese title of this piece. This girl is braving the heat of the day as best she can.
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A very nice hand-made painted cloth mounted to a hand-loomed tapestry to make a wonderful wall hanging.
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"Summer Song" or "Summer Singing" is the translation of the simple Chinese title of this piece.
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"Summer Song" or "Summer Singing" is the translation of the simple Chinese title of this piece.
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This painting features a pretty Japanese girl wearing traditional dress.
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This painting features a pretty Japanese girl with flowers in her hair.
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This painting features a pretty Japanese girl with flowers in her hair.
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This painting features a girl playing a guqin (an ancient Chinese 5 or 7 string zither or harp).
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The scroll that I am holding in this picture is a "medium size"
4-character wall scroll.
As you can see, it is a great size to hang on your wall.
(We also offer custom wall scrolls in larger sizes)
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.
The following table is only helpful for those studying Chinese (or Japanese), and perhaps helps search engines to find this page when someone enters Romanized Chinese or Japanese
| Title | Characters Simplified Traditional |
Japanese Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| God Daughter | 教女 教女 | n/a | jiào nǚ jiao nv chiao nü | jiao4 nv3 jiaonv |
| Mother and Daughter | 母女 母女 | n/a | mǔ nǚ mu nv mu nü | mu3 nv3 munv |
| Baby | 宝宝 寶寶 | n/a | bǎo bao bao bao pao pao | bao3 bao baobao |
| Baby (Japanese Only) | 乳児 乳児 | nyuu ji nyuuji nyu ji | n/a | |
| Baby (Japanese) | 赤ん坊 赤ん坊 | akan bou akanbou akan bo | n/a | |
| Beauty / Beautiful | 美 美 | bi | měi mei | mei3 mei |
| Beautiful Girl | 美丽的姑娘 美麗的姑娘 | n/a | měi lì de gū niang mei li de gu niang mei li te ku niang | mei3 li4 de gu1 niang meilideguniang |
| Beautiful Woman | 美丽的女人 美麗的女人 | n/a | měi lì de nǚ rén mei li de nv ren mei li te nü jen | mei3 li4 de nv3 ren2 meilidenvren |
| Mother and Son | 母子 母子 | bo shi boshi | mǔ zǐ mu zi mu tzu | mu3 zi3 muzi |
| Strong Woman | 女强人 女強人 | n/a | nǚ qiáng rén nv qiang ren nü ch`iang jen | nv3 qiang2 ren2 nvqiangren nüchiangjen nü chiang jen |
If you have not set up your computer to display Chinese, the characters in this table probably look like empty boxes or random text garbage.
This is why I spent hundreds of hours making images so that you could view the characters in the "daughter" listings above.
If you want your Windows computer to be able to display Chinese characters you can either head to your Regional and Language options in your Win XP control panel, select the [Languages] tab and click on [Install files for East Asian Languages]. This task will ask for your Win XP CD to complete in most cases. If you don't have your Windows XP CD, or are running Windows 98, you can also download/run the simplified Chinese font package installer from Microsoft which works independently with Win 98, ME, 2000, and XP. It's a 2.5MB download, so if you are on dial up, start the download and go make a sandwich.
Some people may refer to this entry as Kanji, Characters, in Mandarin Chinese, Characters, in Chinese Writing, in Japanese Writing, in Asian Writing, Ideograms, Chinese symbols, Hieroglyphics, Glyphs, in Chinese Letters, Hanzi, in Japanese Kanji, Pictograms, in the Chinese Written-Language, or in the Japanese Written-Language.
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