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Note: It's difficult to express just the idea of "brothers" in Chinese and Japanese. This is because the words for "brother" actually mean "older brother" and "younger brother", but there is no generic "brothers". Even if your brother is 1 minute older than you, he is your older brother (and vice versa). Seniority (and respect of elders) is very important in Asian cultures and thus permeates the relationships of brothers and sisters as well.

Brotherly and Sisterly Love

shǒu zú qíng

This is the love between siblings. When you love, protect, care for, and have a deep bond that only brothers or sisters can.

The actual translation is "Hand and Foot" but it is said the relationship between brothers or sisters is like that of hands and feet. They belong together, and complete the body. Even though this says "hand and foot", it will always be read with the brotherly and sisterly love meaning in Chinese.

Note: During the past 20 years, the "One child policy" in China is slowly making this term obsolete.

Impartial & Fair to the
Brotherhood & Sisterhood of the World

AKA: Universal Benevolence

yí shì tóng rén
Japanese

isshidoujin
Korean

일시동인

This is how to write "universal benevolence". This is also how to express the idea that you see all people the same.

If you are kind and charitable to all people, this is the best way to state that virtue. It is the essence of being impartial to all mankind, regardless of social standing, background, race, sex, etc. You do not judge others, but rather you see them eye to eye on the same level with you.

Benevolence

rén

jin

인

Beyond "benevolence" word can be also be defined as "charity" or "mercy" depending on context.

The meaning suggests that one should pay alms to the poor, care for those in trouble, and take care of his fellow man (or woman).

This is one of the five tenets of Confucius. In fact, it is a subject in which Confucius spent a great deal of time explaining to his disciples.

I have also seen this benevolent-related word translated as perfect virtue, selflessness, love for humanity, humaneness, goodness, good will, or simply "love" in the non-romantic form.

This word is so important to me that I named my second daughter with this character. Her name is "Renni" which means "Benevolent Girl".
-Gary.

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

See Also... Love | Altruism | Kindness | Charity | Confucius

Fraternity

University Brotherhood / House

xiōng dì huì

This is the word in Chinese for a college fraternity or some other kind of fraternal order. Literally, these characters mean "Elder brother younger brother association". The last character can also be translated as group, union, gathering, assembly, meeting, or conference.

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

1 character $26.88

3 characters $38.88

4 characters $43.88

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.

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 a few weeks for delivery from the time you place your order. Rush options are available!

When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.

Brotherly and Sisterly Love

Benevolence

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Prices for small-sized standard custom calligraphy wall scrolls
shown on this page:

Single-Character:

USD $26.88 U.S. Dollars
GBP £17.75 British Pounds
EUR €19.84 Euros
CAD $27.11 Canadian Dollars
AUS $29.22 Australian Dollars

3 Characters:

USD $38.88 U.S. Dollars
GBP £25.67 British Pounds
EUR €28.70 Euros
CAD $39.22 Canadian Dollars
AUS $42.26 Australian Dollars

4 Characters:

USD $43.88 U.S. Dollars
GBP £28.97 British Pounds
EUR €32.39 Euros
CAD $44.26 Canadian Dollars
AUS $47.70 Australian Dollars

Customizations that you select may raise or lower the price. Medium/Regular size available for $7 more.

Impartial & Fair to theBrotherhood & Sisterhood of the World

Fraternity

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.

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)
Brotherly and Sisterly Love	手足情手足情	n/a	shǒu zú qíng shou zu qing	shou3 zu2 qing2 shouzuqing
Impartial & Fair to the Brotherhood & Sisterhood of the World	一视同仁一視同仁	isshidoujin ishidojin	yí shì tóng rén yi shi tong ren	yi2 shi4 tong2 ren2 yishitongren
Benevolence	仁仁	jin	rén ren	ren2 ren
Fraternity	兄弟会兄弟會	n/a	xiōng dì huì xiong di hui	xiong1 di4 hui4 xiongdihui
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 "Brothers" 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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