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Mandarin: huáng hòu
Japanese: kou gou
Korean: 황후
This is the title of empress or emperess, the female form of emperor. This is used in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
While the emperor's reign was for life, if he died, his wife would hold his power. In this case, a woman was the ultimate ruler of the greater part of East Asia (what is now China) until her death and the succession of the emperor's first born son to lead the empire. Numerous times in various Chinese dynasties, an empress took power in this way.
The first character means emperor by itself.
The second character alone can mean "wife of an emperor or king" (the first character clarifies that we are talking about an empress, and not a queen). It can also mean sovereign or last offspring, depending on context.
Note: In some books, this word is translated as queen. While only incorrect if you get technical (because an empress is theoretically a higher level than a queen), the meaning is very similar.
This is sometimes used for the title of queen, but more technically, this is the wife of the emperor (a higher level than a queen).
See Also... Emperor | King | Queen | Phoenix
Score: 100/100
Wife of the King
Mandarin: wáng hòu
Japanese: ou kou
Korean: 왕후
This is another way to write queen in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
This is sometimes used for the title of empress.
The first character means "king" and the second means "wife", or a short form to say "wife of the king / emperor". So this is literally, "king's wife" or "emperor's wife". Some will translate this as "queen consort".
See Also... Queen | Goddess | King | Emperor
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: huáng dì
Japanese: koutei
Korean: 황제
From times of old, the emperors of Asia ruled under the authority of God himself. In fact, one definition of an emperor is a ruler put in power by God. This definition separates emperors from the various kings in Chinese history (although defining who is a king versus an emperor gets vague sometimes).
Occasionally, the emperor's wife was widowed, and she took the role of empress until her death (see our entry for empress if that is what you are looking for).
See Also... King | Queen | Dragon
Score: 43/100
Mandarin: nǚ wáng
Japanese: jo ou
Korean: 여왕
This is one way to write queen in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
This is not the same thing as an empress.
The first character means "woman" or "female", and the second means "king". So this is literally, "woman king".
See Also... Goddess | King | Emperor
Score: 28/100
Mandarin: huáng
Japanese: kou
Korean: 황
This is the simple, single-character way to write emperor in Chinese and Japanese.
See Also... King | Queen | Dragon
Score: 24/100
Mandarin: huáng
Japanese: ou
Korean: 황
This is another simple way to write "Phoenix" in Chinese. This is the specifically female element of phoenix, so this is how you write "female phoenix". This character is sometimes used to represent the female empress (many times in history, China was ruled by a woman, in much the same way queens came to power in Europe).
Note that the emperor is always represented as a dragon (not the male version of phoenix).
If you see yourself as a strong woman, this might be scroll for you to express "woman power" or "powerful woman" in a cool way.
Score: 6/100
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $29.88 each
2-3 characters $39.88 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.
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CAD $32.02
AUS $32.87
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EUR €26.92
CAD $42.74
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Customizations that you select may raise or lower the price.
More EMPRESS Asian artwork can be found here.
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) | |||
| Empress | 皇后 皇后 | kou gou kougou ko go | huáng hòu huang hou | huang2 hou4 huanghou | ||
| Queen / Empress | 王后 王后 | ou kou oukou o ko | wáng hòu wang hou | wang2 hou4 wanghou | ||
| Emperor | 皇帝 皇帝 | koutei kotei | huáng dì huang di | huang2 di4 huangdi | ||
| Queen | 女王 女王 | jo ou joou jo o | nǚ wáng nv wang | nv3 wang2 nvwang | ||
| Emperor | 皇 皇 | kou ko | huáng huang | huang2 huang | ||
| Phoenix (female) | 凰 凰 | ou o | huáng huang | huang2 huang | ||
| 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 "empress" 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 Empress Kanji, Empress Characters, Empress in Chinese Writing, Empress in Japanese Writing, Empress in Asian Writing, Empress Ideograms, Chinese Empress symbols, Empress Hieroglyphics, Empress Glyphs, Empress in Chinese Letters, Empress Hanzi, Empress in Japanese Kanji, Empress Pictograms, Empress in the Chinese Written-Language, or Empress in the Japanese Written-Language.
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