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This is the surname Ng in Chinese.
吳 is sometimes romanized as Ang, Eng, Ing and Ong in the United States and Ung in Australia. In Mandarin, 吳 is usually romanized as Wu, but sometimes Woo. In Vietnamese, 吳 can be the Ngô surname.
Be careful, as 黃/黄 is another surname character that also romanizes as Ng and other variants noted above.
剛柔 is a term that means hardness and softness or hard and soft.
剛柔 is also the Chinese character origin of the martial arts style known as Cương Nhu.
Cương Nhu or Cuong Nhu was founded by Grandmaster Ngo Dong in 1965 in Hue, Vietnam, and brought to the U.S. in 1971.
剛 means hard, firm, strong, and just.
柔 means soft, flexible, supple, yielding, softness, and/or gentleness.
Until it was romanized in the mid-17th century by Portuguese missionaries with later influence by French missionaries, Vietnamese was exclusively written in Chinese characters. With some research, you can still figure out the original way to write most Vietnamese words and titles in Chinese characters. That is what I did here to figure out that Cuong Nhu would have been 剛柔 if established in ancient Vietnam.
Same characters are used in Japanese for various Goju schools of Okinawan martial arts, though not the same lineage as the Vietnamese style described above.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your Ngo search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
ンゴ see styles |
ngo ンゴ |
More info & calligraphy: Ngo |
慈濟 慈济 see styles |
cí jì ci2 ji4 tz`u chi tzu chi |
Tzu Chi Foundation, an international humanitarian NGO, established in 1966 in Taiwan |
NGO see styles |
enu jii oo; enujiioo(sk) / enu ji oo; enujioo(sk) エヌ・ジー・オー; エヌジーオー(sk) |
(See 非政府組織) non-governmental organization; NGO |
民間団体 see styles |
minkandantai みんかんだんたい |
nongovernment organization (organisation); NGO |
民間組織 民间组织 see styles |
mín jiān zǔ zhī min2 jian1 zu3 zhi1 min chien tsu chih |
association; organization; humanitarian organization; NGO |
自然之友 see styles |
zì rán zhī yǒu zi4 ran2 zhi1 you3 tzu jan chih yu |
Friends of Nature (Chinese environmental NGO) |
非政府組織 非政府组织 see styles |
fēi zhèng fǔ zǔ zhī fei1 zheng4 fu3 zu3 zhi1 fei cheng fu tsu chih hiseifusoshiki / hisefusoshiki ひせいふそしき |
non-governmental organization (NGO) non-governmental organization; non-governmental organisation; NGO |
ペシャワール会 see styles |
peshawaarukai / peshawarukai ペシャワールかい |
(org) Peshawar-kai (Japanese NGO operating out of Afghanistan and Pakistan); (o) Peshawar-kai (Japanese NGO operating out of Afghanistan and Pakistan) |
ジャパンプラットフォーム see styles |
japanpurattofoomu ジャパンプラットフォーム |
(org) Japan Platform (Japanese emergency relief NGO); (o) Japan Platform (Japanese emergency relief NGO) |
ジャパン・プラットフォーム see styles |
japan purattofoomu ジャパン・プラットフォーム |
(o) Japan Platform (Japanese emergency relief NGO) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Ngo | ンゴ | ngo | ||
Ng | 吳 吴 | wú / wu2 / wu | ||
Cuong Nhu | 剛柔 | gou juu / goujuu / go ju | gāng róu / gang1 rou2 / gang rou / gangrou | kang jou / kangjou |
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. |
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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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