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We've carefully transliterated Desire into Mandarin and can offer many custom Chinese calligraphy options for Desire.
Quick links to words on this page...
Mandarin: kě wàng
Korean: 갈망
This Chinese word can mean desirous, wishful, or simply desire.
The first character means to thirst for something, or to be thirsty. The second character means to hope for, to expect, to gaze (into the distance) or to look for something. The combined meaning of these two characters changes a bit, but I think it's nice to know the individual meanings to give you a better understanding of where a word comes from.
Korean definitions of this word include craving, longing and thirst for knowledge.
Mandarin: yù wàng
Japanese: yokubou
Korean: 욕망
The first character of this word means desire, longing, hunger, covetousness, greed, passion, desire, craving, or wish. The second character means to hope for, ambition, to desire, to aspire, to expect, to gaze (into the distance) or to look for something.
Together, they create a word that means strong desire, while some might tranlate it as "lust".
feminine name
Mandarin: dé xī léi
This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name Desire
Mandarin: yuàn wàng
Japanese: gan bou
This means desire, wish, or aspiration in Chinese and Japanese.
Mandarin: jí dì
Japanese: jittai
Korean: 집체
At the core of suffering is often the concept of desire or attachment. This can be carnal desire, monetary desire, or the attachment you have to something that you are unwilling to part with (such as a fancy car). This is a simplification of the second noble truth which is really and exploration into the root causes of suffering - it's deeper than I can go in a few sentences.
See Also... Buddhism | Enlightenment
Mandarin: miè dì
Japanese: mettai
Korean: 멸체
Once you eliminate desire or attachment to worldly things, only then can you achieve enlightenment.
See Also... Buddhism | Enlightenment
Mandarin: xī wàng
Japanese: kibou
Korean: 희망
Besides "to hope" this also means "to wish for" or "to desire". It can also mean expectation or aspiration depending on context.
See Also... Faith
Mandarin: qíng yù
Japanese: jouyoku
Korean: 정욕
This word can be defined as lust, sexual desire, sensual desire, carnal desirepassions, sexual desire, and passion.
The first character means feeling, emotions, passionate, sympathy, affection, love, compassion, tender feelings, and sometimes circumstances or facts.
The second character means desire, longing, appetite, wish, covetousness, greed, passion, desire, and craving.
This word is universal in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja.
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
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 $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:
2-3 Characters:
USD $39.88
GBP £20.48
EUR €25.80
CAD $40.23
AUS $42.48
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) | |||
| Desire | 渴望 渴望 | n/a | kě wàng | ke3 wang4 | ||
| Desire / Craving | 欲望 欲望 | yokubou | yù wàng | yu4 wang4 | ||
| Desire | 德西雷 德西雷 | n/a | dé xī léi | de2 xi1 lei2 | ||
| Desire / Wish / Aspiration | 愿望 願望 | gan bou | yuàn wàng | yuan4 wang4 | ||
| Four Noble Truths: ...Desire and Attachment | 集谛 集諦 | jittai | jí dì | ji2 di4 | ||
| Four Noble Truths: ...Elimination of Desire | 灭谛 滅諦 | mettai | miè dì | mie4 di4 | ||
| Hope | 希望 希望 | kibou | xī wàng | xi1 wang4 | ||
| Lust / Desire / Passion | 情欲 情欲 | jouyoku | qíng yù | qing2 yu4 | ||
| 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 "Desire" 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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