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We have many options to create artwork with Family characters on a wall scroll or portrait.
If you want to create a cool Family Asian character tattoo, just email us and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of Family.
Mandarin: ér tóng
Japanese: jidou
Korean: 아동
This is how to write "child" in Chinese. There are several ways to write child or offspring in Chinese, but this is the best form for calligraphy, or written (versus oral) form.
If children are important to you, this might be the scroll you want. Or if you are a child at heart, this also works.
In Japanese, they use a slightly-morphed version of the original Chinese first character. If you want the special Japanese version, please click on the Kanji image shown to the right, instead of the button above. Note: Japanese people would still be able to understand the Chinese version and vice versa.
Mandarin: jiā
Japanese: ei / uchi / ke
Korean: 가
This is the single-character that means family in Chinese and Japanese. It can also mean home or household depending on context.
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 pronunciaton. The version shown above is the most universal, and is also ancient/traditional. The image shown to the right is only for reference.
Mandarin: fú láo ěr sī
This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the family name Flowers.
This sounds like "Flowers" in Mandarin Chinese, but does not mean flowers in any way, shape or form. I strongly suggest the single character which means "flower" in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
See Also... Flower
Mandarin: yǒng yuǎn de jiā
This is a special phrase that we composed for a "family by adoption" or "adoptive family".
It's the dream of every orphan and foster child to be formally adopted and find their "forever family".
The first two characters mean "forever". The third character connects this idea with the last character which means "family" and/or "home".
Mandarin: tiān xià yī jiā
Japanese: tenka ikka
Korean: 천하일가
This phrase can also be translated as "The whole world is one family". It is used to mean that all humans are related under heaven.
The first two characters can be translated as "the world", "whole country", "descended from heaven", "earth under heaven", "the public" or "the ruling power".
The second two characters can mean "one family", "a household", "one's folks", "a house" or "a home". Usually this is read as "a family".
Note: This phrase can be understood in Japanese, though not commonly used.
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $28.88 each
2-3 characters $39.88 each
4 characters $49.88 each
After you select your calligraphy, our website will take you through the process of customizing your artwork.
Options for other mounting such as portraits are available for $12 less.
We also offer the services of a famous master calligrapher for a $40 fee on any scroll if you are looking for investment-quality calligraphy.
If you chose our famous master-calligrapher, you also get more choices for silk and paper colors and the option for larger artwork.
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 at least 3 weeks for delivery from the time you place your order.
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
Prices for
custom wall scrolls
shown on this page:
Single-Character:
USD $28.88
GBP £19.90
EUR €21.26
CAD $35.03
AUS $40.80
2-3 Characters:
USD $39.88
GBP £27.48
EUR €29.36
CAD $48.37
AUS $56.34
4 Characters:
USD $49.88
GBP £34.37
EUR €36.73
CAD $60.50
AUS $70.47
Customizations that you select may raise or lower the price.
The scroll that I am holding in this picture is a "regular 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 Hanyu-Pinyin (Romanized Chinese) | |||
| Child | 儿童 兒童 | jidou | ér tóng | er2 tong2 | ||
| Family | 家 家 / 傢 | ei/uchi/ke | jiā | jia1 | ||
| Flowers (family name) | 弗劳尔斯 弗勞爾斯 | n/a | fú láo ěr sī | fu2 lao2 er3 si1 | ||
| Forever Family | 永远的家 永遠的家 | n/a | yǒng yuǎn de jiā | yong3 yuan3 de jia1 | ||
| One Family Under Heaven | 天下一家 天下一家 | tenkaikka | tiān xià yī jiā | tian1 xia4 yi1 jia1 | ||
| 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 we spent hundreds of hours making images so that you could view the characters in the "Family" 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. | ||||||
All custom calligraphy items are made-to-order in our little Beijing artwork-mounting workshop.
Normal delivery isjust over 3 weeksfor these handmade items.
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