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We have many options to create artwork with Beauty characters on a wall scroll or portrait.
If you want to create a cool Beauty Asian character tattoo, just email us and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of beauty.
Quick links to words on this page...
Mandarin: měi lì de gū niang
Mandarin: měi róng
Japanese: biyou
Korean: 미용
In Chinese, this is the title for the art of beauty, as applying makeup or cosmetics to enhance beauty.
Note: In Japanese and Korean, this takes the meaning of beautiful face or beauty of figure or form. Be sure you know who your audience is, and have matched the desired meaning.
Mandarin: měi lì de nǚ rén
This is the best and most polite way to express "beautiful woman" in Chinese.
Note: Some people may like the simple 2-character 
way to express this, but there are some bad connotations with that, so better to stay with this longer and more respectful title.
See Also... Beautiful Girl
Mandarin: měi
Japanese: bi
Korean: 미
This word is often used to describe the beauty of a woman. It's also the first character in the word for "beauty salon" which you will see all over China.
For a bit of trivia: The title for the "USA" in Chinese is "Mei Guo" which literally means "Beautiful Country". This name was bestowed at a time before Chairman Mao came to power and decided that China didn't like the USA anymore (even though we fought together against the Japanese in WWII). But these days, Chinese people love Americans (but have distaste for American politics and policy). But I digress...
This is also how "Beautiful" is written in Japanese Kanji and Korean Hanja.
See Also... Beautiful Woman | Beautiful Girl
Mandarin: qíng rén yǎn lǐ chū xī shī
Any woman with affection for Asian art and you will love a gift of this calligraphy on a wall scroll. She will melt in your arms as you tell her the meaning of these characters.
Contained in this phrase is a reference to the most beautiful woman in Chinese history. Her name was Xi Shi, and she was known to have good looks that need not fine robes or make up. Her charms were so powerful that she brought down an entire kingdom (in a successful effort to bring honor and pride back to her people).
Mandarin: měi róng diàn
This is how to write "Beauty Shop" or "Beauty Salon". If you own such a business, this would make a nice wall scroll to hang up - and many of your Asian customers will be able to read and appreciate it. When traveling in China, you will see signs like this in the window of any place that offers full services of hair styling, manicures, pedicures, and often shampoo with head and back massage.
However, as a handmade wall scroll, this becomes a very fancy piece of artwork that shows the high class of your business (a great sign for your window, if you don't get direct sunlight).
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $28.88 each
2-3 characters $39.88 each
5-10 characters $59.88 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 £14.83
EUR €18.68
CAD $29.13
AUS $30.76
2-3 Characters:
USD $39.88
GBP £20.48
EUR €25.80
CAD $40.23
AUS $42.48
5-10 Characters:
USD $59.88
GBP £30.75
EUR €38.74
CAD $60.40
AUS $63.78
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) | |||
| Beautiful Girl | 美丽的姑娘 美麗的姑娘 | n/a | měi lì de gū niang | mei3 li4 de gu1 niang | ||
| Beauty: The art of makeup / cosmetics | 美容 美容 | biyou | měi róng | mei3 rong2 | ||
| Beautiful Woman | 美丽的女人 美麗的女人 | n/a | měi lì de nǚ rén | mei3 li4 de nv3 ren2 | ||
| Beauty | 美 美 | bi | měi | mei3 | ||
| You are always a beauty in your lover's eyes | 情人眼里出西施 情人眼裡出西施 | n/a | qíng rén yǎn lǐ chū xī shī | qing2 ren2 yan3 li3 chu1 xi1 shi1 | ||
| Beauty Shop / Beauty Salon | 美容店 美容店 | n/a | měi róng diàn | mei3 rong2 dian4 | ||
| 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 "Beauty" 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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