This is how to write jade in Chinese, Korean Hanja and Japanese Kanji. This refers to the semi-precious stone that can be almost white or a vivid green.
Note: In Japanese, this character can mean jewel, ball, sphere or coin depending on context.
If your name is Jade, you may want to choose this to represent your name by meaning rather than pronunciation.
Jade
jiǎ dé
This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Jade
Time is more valuable than Jade
bù guì chǐ zhī bì ér zhòng cùn zhī yīn
Characters shown above are read vertically, starting from the right
This literally translates as: Treasure not a foot long [piece of] jade, [rather] treasure an inch of time.
Figuratively, this suggests that time is the most important/valuable thing in life.
Death Before Dishonor
Better to be broken jade than unbroken pottery
níng wéi yù suì
This is the short version of a longer Chinese phrase which means, "rather be shattered piece of jade than an unbroken piece of pottery". The characters shown above just say the "rather be a broken piece of jade" part (the second half is implied - everyone in China knows this idiom).
A little more explanation: Death is implied with the "broken" meaning. Jade is one of the most precious materials in Chinese history, and in this case is compared with one's honor and self-worth. Pottery is just something you eat off of, it has no deep value, just as a person who has lost their honor, or had none to begin with. Thus, this means, "better to die with honor than to live in shame" or words to that effect.
This is often translated in English as "Death Before Dishonor", the famous military slogan.
I would also compare this to the English phrase, "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees".
Death Before Dishonor
Better to be broken jade than unbroken pottery
níng wéi yù suì bú wéi wǎ quán
This is the long version of a Chinese phrase which means, "rather be shattered piece of jade than an unbroken piece of pottery".
A little more explanation: Death is implied with the "broken" meaning. Jade is one of the most precious materials in Chinese history, and in this case is compared with one's honor and self-worth. Pottery is just something you eat off of, it has no deep value, just as a person who has lost their honor, or had none to begin with. Thus, this means, "better to die with honor than to live in shame" or words to that effect.
This is often translated in English as "Death Before Dishonor", the famous military slogan.
I would also compare this to the English phrase, "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees".
You are who you hang out with.
āi jīn sì jīn āi yù sì yù
Characters shown above are read vertically, starting from the right
This literally translates as: [One who is] close to gold [is] like gold [and one who is] close to jade [is] like jade.
Figuratively, this means: A good environment produces good people. People are in influenced by the company they keep.
Basically, if you hang out with good people, you are likely to become or stay good yourself. The opposite also being true. This is like the moral version of "You are what you eat".
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
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 "Jade" 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.
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