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We have many options to create artwork with Faith characters on a wall scroll or portrait.
If you want to create a cool Faith Asian character tattoo, just email us and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of faith.
(single character)
Mandarin: xìn
Japanese: shin
Korean: 신
This single character is often part of other words with similar meanings. Alone, this character can mean to believe, truth, faith, fidelity, sincerity, trust and confidence in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
It is one of the five basic tenets of Confucius.
In Chinese, it sometimes has the secondary meaning of a letter (as in the mail) depending on context, but it will not be read that way when seen on a wall scroll.
See Also... Trust
Mandarin: xìn yǎng
Japanese: shinkou
Korean: 신앙
This means firm belief, faith, persuasion, conviction, and sometimes religion or creed in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This word clearly fits religious connotation of the English word "devotion".
See Also... Trust
Mandarin: xìn niàn
Japanese: shinnen
Korean: 신념
Faith is one of the "Seven Heavenly Virtues". These characters express the idea of "having a belief", or "trusting in the unseen".
This word could also be translated as beliefs or convictions.
See Also... Devotion | Dedication | Trust
Mandarin: xìn yǎng
Japanese: shinkou
Korean: 신앙
This is the more religious form of "faith". It has this same meaning in Chinese, Korean and Japanese and is often used to refer to a person of faith or a religious person. Can be directly translated as "firm belief", "creed", "conviction" or simply as "religious" depending on context.
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... Desire
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $28.88 each
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:
Single-Character:
USD $28.88
GBP £14.82
EUR €18.66
CAD $29.05
AUS $30.63
2-3 Characters:
USD $39.88
GBP £20.46
EUR €25.77
CAD $40.11
AUS $42.29
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) | |||
| Believe / Faith / Trust | 信 信 | shin | xìn | xin4 | ||
| Devotion | 信仰 信仰 | shinkou | xìn yǎng | xin4 yang3 | ||
| Faith | 信念 信念 | shinnen | xìn niàn | xin4 nian4 | ||
| Faith | 信仰 信仰 | shinkou | xìn yǎng | xin4 yang3 | ||
| Hope | 希望 希望 | kibou | xī wàng | xi1 wang4 | ||
| 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 "Faith" 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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