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Custom Sincerity Chinese & Japanese Calligraphy Wall Scroll

We have many options to create artwork with Sincerity characters on a wall scroll or portrait.
If you want to create a cool Sincerity Asian character tattoo, you can purchase that on our Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Image Service page and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of Sincerity.

Quick links to words on this page...

  1. Sincere / True Sincerity
  2. Sincerity and Devotion
  3. Sincerity and Faithfulness
  4. Best Love / Most Sincere Love
  5. Integrity - Sincere Honest and Faithful
  6. Most Sincere Friend / Honest Friend Real Friend / Best Friend
  7. Sincere Heart
  8. Devotion / Enthusiasm
  9. Honesty
10. Loyalty
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Sincere / True Sincerity

Mandarin zhēn chéng
Korean 진성
真
誠

This is the true essence of sincerity. It takes strength of personality to be truly sincere without over-doing it. Speaking of strength, this is probably the strongest way to convey the idea of sincerity in the Chinese language without over-doing it.

The first character literally means true, real, and genuine. While the second character means sincere and honest.

See Also...  Love | Honor

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Sincerity and Devotion

Mandarin zhì chéng
Japanese shisei
Korean 지성
至
誠

This is the idea that you enter into something with the utmost sincerity and fidelity. Ideas such as devotion, honesty, and "one's true heart" are also contained in this word.

This is a universal word as the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja are all identical.

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Sincerity and Faithfulness

Mandarin dǔ shí
Korean 독실
篤
實

This word means sincere, solid, and faithful.

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Best Love / Most Sincere Love

Mandarin zhì ài
至
愛

This can mean the best love or most sincere love of your life. This could be a romantic love such as the love you have for your spouse or a boyfriend / girlfriend. It can also apply to the extreme love you have for your children or a parent, and maybe a really good friend.

See Also...  I Love You

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Integrity - Sincere Honest and Faithful

Japanese sei jitsu
誠
実

This is the Japanese version of integrity which can also be defined as a combination of "sincere, honest and faithful".

Some may also define this as "loyal" or "loyalty". In some context, it can mean "genuine". Yes, all of this meaning in just one Japanese word!

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Most Sincere Friend / Honest Friend
Real Friend / Best Friend

Mandarin zhì yǒu
摯
友

This one way to say best friend in Chinese.

The first character can mean "honest" or "most sincere". The second character means "friend" or "friends" (plural forms work differently in Chinese).

See Also...  Friendship | Soulmates

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Sincere Heart

Mandarin xuě xīn
Korean 혈심
血
心

When you take this word apart, you find the sum is a little different than the parts. The first character means blood and the second means heart. It is important to note that for thousands of years, it was believed that your heart was both your soul and your mind in Asian culture. When you add blood to the heart, it is your whole being - it is pure and clean dedication with your whole soul.

Most Chinese dictionaries define this as sincerity of heart or a MEDICAL TERM!!!
Please think carefully before ordering this selection - it was only added as others have used this for coffee cups and other novelties (though perhaps naively).

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Devotion / Enthusiasm

Mandarin rè chéng
Japanese nessei
Korean 열성
熱
誠

This word is universal in Chinese, Japanese Kanji and old Korean Hanja.

It can mean earnestness, enthusiasm, ardor, zeal, devotion, spirit, or fervor.

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Honesty

Mandarin chéng
Japanese makoto
Korean
誠

This character means truth, faith, fidelity, sincerity, trust and/or confidence.

This is also a virtue of the Samurai Warrior
See our page with just Code of the Samurai / Bushido here

See Also...  Sincere

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Loyalty

Japanese Chinese Korean

Mandarin zhōng chéng
Japanese chuu sei
Korean 충성
忠
誠

Loyalty is staying true to someone. It is standing up for something you believe in without wavering. It is being faithful to your family, country, school, friends or ideals, when the going gets tough as well as when things are good. With loyalty, you build relationships that last forever.

Notes:
1. This written form of loyalty is universal in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.

2. There is also a Japanese version that is part of the Bushido Code which may be more desirable depending on whether your intended audience is Japanese or Chinese.

3. This version of loyalty is sometimes translated as devotion, sincerity, fidelity, or allegiance.

See Also...  Honor | Trust | Integrity

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Small-sized standard calligraphy wall scrolls on this page start at the following prices:

1 character $26.88

2 characters $33.88

We dispatch any size order to any country worldwide for a flat rate US$9.80 P&P


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 Chinese and Japanese master calligraphers for an additional fee if you are looking for investment-quality calligraphy.

If you chose a master-calligrapher, you also get more choices for silk and paper colors and the option for larger artwork.




A nice Chinese calligraphy wall scroll

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)

A professional Chinese Calligrapher

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.

Trying to learn Chinese calligrapher - a futile effort

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.


A high-ranked Chinese master calligrapher that I met in Zhongwei

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.



See: Our list of specifically Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls. And, check out Our list of specifically old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.



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)
Sincere / True Sincerity真诚
真誠
n/azhēn chéng
zhen cheng
zhen1 cheng2
zhencheng
Sincerity and Devotion至诚
至誠
shiseizhì chéng
zhi cheng
zhi4 cheng2
zhicheng
Sincerity and Faithfulness笃实
篤實
n/adǔ shí
du shi
du3 shi2
dushi
Best Love / Most Sincere Love至爱
至愛
n/azhì ài
zhi ai
zhi4 ai4
zhiai
Integrity - Sincere Honest and Faithful誠実
誓實
sei jitsu
seijitsu
n/a
Most Sincere Friend / Honest Friend / Real Friend / Best Friend挚友
摯友
n/azhì yǒu
zhi you
zhi4 you3
zhiyou
Sincere Heart血心
血心
n/axuě xīn
xue xin
xue3 xin1
xuexin
Devotion / Enthusiasm热诚
熱誠
nessei
nesei
rè chéng
re cheng
re4 cheng2
recheng
Honesty
makotochéng
cheng
cheng2
cheng
Loyalty忠诚
忠誠
chuu sei
chuusei
chu sei
zhōng chéng
zhong cheng
zhong1 cheng2
zhongcheng
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 "Sincerity" 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.
Please note: Rush service can be as fast as two weeks, but regular service is over a month for delivery.


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