Buy a Custom Home Chinese or Japanese Calligraphy Wall Scroll
We have many options to create artwork with the Chinese characters / Asian symbols / Japanese Kanji for Home on a wall scroll or portrait. If you want to create a cool Home Asian character tattoo, you can purchase that on our Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Image Service page and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of Home.
This is the single-character that means family in Chinese and Japanese. It can also mean home or household depending on context.
Hanging this on your wall suggests that you put "family first".
Pronunciation varies in Japanese depending on context. When pronounced "uchi" in Japanese, it means home, but when pronounced "ke", it means family.
Note that there is an alternate form of this character. It has an additional radical on the left side, but no difference in meaning or pronunciation. The version shown above is the most universal, and is also ancient/traditional. The image shown to the right is only for reference.
This old Chinese idiom is roughly equal to the English phrase "Home is where the heart is". If you know Chinese, you may recognize the first character as home and the third as heart.
Any success can not compensate for failure in the home
suǒ yǒu de chéng gōng dōu wú fǎ bǔ cháng jiā tíng de shī bài
Characters shown above are read vertically, starting from the right
This could also be translated in English as "No success can compensate for failure in the home".
Also, the word for "home" can be exchanged with "family".
Added by special request of a customer. This phase is natural in Chinese, but it is not a common or ancient title.
The first character is dragon. The second is a possessive modifier (like making "dragon" into "dragon's"). The third character means home (but in some context can mean "family" - however, here it would generally be understood as "home").
The first character means gold or golden. The second and third characters hold the meaning of auspiciousness and good luck. the fourth character is dragon. The fifth is a possessive modifier (like making "dragon" into "dragon's"). The last character means home (but in some context can mean "family" - however, here it would generally be understood as "home").
Note: The word order is different than the English title, because of grammar differences between English and Chinese. This phrase sounds very natural in Chinese in this character order. If written in the English word order, it would sound very strange and lose its impact in Chinese.
Note: Korean pronunciation is included above, but this has not been reviewed by a Korean translator.
All of our calligraphy is completely done by hand in the ancient way.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to our 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.
Therefore, allow a few weeks for delivery from the time you place your order. Rush options are available!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
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
Any success can not compensate for failure in the home
所有的成功都无法补偿家庭的失败 所有的成功都無法補償家庭的失敗
n/a
suǒ yǒu de chéng gōng dōu wú fǎ bǔ cháng jiā tíng de shī bài suo you de cheng gong dou wu fa bu chang jia ting de shi bai so yu te ch`eng kung tou wu fa pu ch`ang chia t`ing te shih pai
suo3 you3 de cheng2 gong1 dou1 wu2 fa3 bu3 chang2 jia1 ting2 de shi1 bai4 so yu te cheng kung tou wu fa pu chang chia ting te shih pai
Home of the Dragon
龙之家 龍之家
n/a
lóng zhī jiā long zhi jia lung chih chia
long2 zhi1 jia1 longzhijia
Home of the Auspicious Golden Dragon
金瑞祥龙之家 金瑞祥龍之家
n/a
jīn ruì xiáng lóng zhī jiā jin rui xiang long zhi jia chin jui hsiang lung chih chia
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 "home" 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.
Note that there is an alternate form of this character. It has an additional radical on the left side, but no difference in meaning or pronunciation. The version shown above is the most universal, and is also ancient/traditional. The image shown to the right is only for reference.
