Learn how the name August is written in Chinese and Japanese. Decorate your home with a cool wall scroll that says August.
Eighth Month
八月 is the month of August in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
八月 literally means “eighth month” or “eighth moon.”
In Japanese, this can also be the female given name, Yatsuki, in much the same way August can be a female given name in English.
恐れ多い is a Japanese word for something awe-inspiring or awesome (in some odd context, it can refer to August).
恐れ多い is probably not appropriate for a calligraphy wall scroll unless you have a specific reason.
The word awesome is misused a lot in English or used too casually. This Japanese word is the real form of awesome, and it kind of means numerous fears and anxiety that you would feel in response to encountering something truly awesome (such as God, a tornado, a tsunami, etc.).
Note: Because this selection contains some special Japanese Hiragana characters, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
August | アウグスト | augusuto | ||
August | 八月 | hachigatsu / yatsuki | bā yuè / ba1 yue4 / ba yue / bayue | pa yüeh / payüeh |
August | 奧古斯特 奥古斯特 | ào gǔ sī tè ao4 gu3 si1 te4 ao gu si te aogusite | ao ku ssu t`e aokussute ao ku ssu te |
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Awesome Awe-Inspiring | 恐れ多い | osore ooi / osoreooi / osore oi | ||
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. |
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.