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This character is used in a lot of compound words in the CJK world. Alone, this character has a broad span of possible meanings. These meanings include relaxed, quiet, rested, contented, calm, still, to pacify, peaceful, at peace, soothing or soothed.
This character and even the pronunciation was borrowed from Chinese and absorbed into both Japanese Kanji and Korean Hanja. In all these languages, this character is pronounced like "an".
Score: 100/100


This is yet another way to express the idea of tranquility and serenity in Chinese.
See Also... Peace | Inner Peace | Harmony | Calm
Score: 2/100


This is one of several ways to express as "serenity" or "tranquility" in Japanese and Chinese. It can also be translated as calm, serenity, tranquil, undisturbed or serene.
See Also... Peace | Inner Peace
Score: 2/100


This word means "safe and sound" in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Can also be translated as well-being, peace, tranquility, quietness, and calmness.
Note: There is also a longer four-character version in our calligraphy database.
See Also... Tranquility | Peace
Score: 2/100


The first and second character both mean quiet. Together, they reinforce the meanings almost creating a word that means "double quiet" or "perfect quiet".
A good wall scroll for a library, reading room, or other quiet place.
Score: 2/100


This means "peace and tranquility" or "peace and security" in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
The literal translation would be "very balanced" or "very peaceful".
The first character means very, much, too much, or extremely.
The second character means balanced, peaceful, calm, equal, even, level, or smooth.
Score: 2/100


These two characters represent the idea of being calm or cool in Chinese, Japanese Kanji and old Korean Hanja.
My Korean dictionary further defines this as quiet, calm, tranquility, pacification.
From my Japanese dictionary: calm, quiet, tranquility, appeasement, pacification.
Note: This term is also used in Korean Hanja, but there is a slight deviation in the way they write the second character in Korean. Still, a Korean person who can read Hanja, will be able to read this word. We can write it in the Korean form if you wish (just let us know when you place your order). In Korean, this is the word you might use to tell someone to "calm down" or "take it easy".
Score: 2/100


These characters mean calm and cool-headed.
Other translations: calmness, composure, coolness, serenity, tranquility.
This is a good wall scroll for someone that wants to remind themselves to stay calm and level-headed.
See Also... Sober Calm
Score: 2/100


This is a nice word that means peaceful, tranquil, calm, composed, "free from worry", "public peace", tranquility, good health, well-being, or welfare in Chinese and Korean.
Note: The definition in Japanese is not so broad, but still means peaceful or "public peace".
Score: 2/100




This phrase means "safe and sound without toil or trouble". It kind of means that all is well with a feeling of complete safety. The ideas contained in these characters include well-being, peace, tranquility, quietness, calmness, and non-problematic.
Score: 2/100

This character is often translated as "serenity". It can also be used to express the ideas of still, calm, quiet, not moving or tranquility.
Note: This is also listed on our website as "Inner Peace" since it also fits that definition.
See Also... Peace | Inner Peace
Score: 2/100


This title is used in Taoism and Qi Gong to describe the state you can reach while sitting quietly in meditation. It contains the ideas of achieving a highly-tranquil and peaceful state. Some may describe this state as "sleeping while still awake".
If you have a relaxation or meditation room, this is the calming wall scroll that you would want hanging in that room.
Score: 2/100
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $29.88 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 $13 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.
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.
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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) | |||
| Calm / Tranquility | 安 安 | an | ān an | an1 an | ||
| Tranquil / Tranquility / Serenity | 宁静 寧靜 | n/a | níng jìng ning jing | ning2 jing4 ningjing | ||
| Serenity / Tranquility | 平静 平靜 | heisei | píng jìng ping jing | ping2 jing4 pingjing | ||
| Safe and Sound | 平安 平安 | heian | píng ān ping an | ping2 an1 pingan | ||
| Peacefulness / Tranquility / Perfectly Quiet | 静谧 靜謐 | seihitsu | jìng mì jing mi | jing4 mi4 jingmi | ||
| Peace and Tranquility | 太平 太平 | tai hei taihei | tài píng tai ping | tai4 ping2 taiping | ||
| Calm / Cool | 镇静 鎮靜 | chin sei chinsei | zhèn jìng zhen jing | zhen4 jing4 zhenjing | ||
| Calm / Cool-Headed | 冷静 冷靜 | rei sei reisei | lěng jìng leng jing | leng3 jing4 lengjing | ||
| Peaceful / Tranquil / Calm / Free From Worry | 安宁 安寧 | an nei annei | ān níng an ning | an1 ning2 anning | ||
| Safe and Sound | 平安无事 平安無事 | heian buji heianbuji | píng ān wú shì ping an wu shi | ping2 an1 wu2 shi4 pinganwushi | ||
| Serenity | 静 靜 | shizu / sei shizu/sei | jìng jing | jing4 jing | ||
| Sit Quietly in Meditation (a state of mind) | 入静 入靜 | n/a | rù jìng ru jing | ru4 jing4 rujing | ||
| 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 "calm tranquility" 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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