Adventures in Asian Art



You can buy a wall scroll with Fancy in Chinese characters.

We've carefully transliterated Fancy into Mandarin and can offer many custom Chinese calligraphy options for Fancy.

Quick links to words on this page...

  1. Beauty Shop / Beauty Salon
  2. Fancy
  3. Fancy Nails
  4. Flower
  5. Four Noble Truths:...
  6. A Traditional Warm Welcome
  7. Woman

Beauty Shop / Beauty Salon

měi róng diàn
美
容
店

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).

Fancy

fàn qiàn
范
茜

This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Fancy

Fancy Nails

(Special Business Name)

shí shàng jiǎ
時
尚
甲

This is a special entry for a customer's business name for a nail salon known as "Fancy Nails".

Flower

huā
hana
花

This is the simple way to write "flower" in Chinese, Japanese, and old Korean. It can also mean blossoms or can refer to a fancy or assorted pattern.

Note: In some context it can mean "spend money". However, as a single character, it will be read as "flower".

This has the meaning of Xochitl (flower) in Spanish, so if your name is Xochitl, I suggest this character to represent your name.

More random information about this character:
This is the Korean surname spelled as "Hwa" before the Korean Romanization reformation of 2000-2001.
It's also a somewhat common given name in China (for females).
This is a borrowed word from Chinese, so it sounds similar in Chinese and Korean.

Four Noble Truths:
Desire and Attachment

Samudaya

jí dì
jittai
집체
集
諦

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

A Traditional Warm Welcome

huān yíng guāng lín
환영광림
歡
迎
光
臨

This would be the ultimate Chinese "welcome mat". Except it will be on your wall, and people will not step on it.

In a somewhat literal translation, you could say it means, "I feel happiness as I welcome you, as you have brought a shining light to this place with your arrival" or in a more simple way, "I am happy you've come as your presents really brightens up the place".

It has become common for this greeting to be announced by the staff upon the arrival of any customer in to a fancy store in China. You will also see these characters on the "welcome mats" in front of 4 and 5 star hotels in China.

Having this on a wall scroll is an extra nice touch. I have seen a few horizontal scrolls with this phrase on the wall behind the reception desk of better hotels, or near the front door of fine shops. At the most fancy department stores and restaurants in China, several greeters (almost always young women) will stand by the front door all wearing sashes with this phrase embroidered on them. As you walk in, they will bow and say "huan ying guang lin" to welcome you to the establishment.

Note: The first two and last two characters do make words in Korean Hanja, but seldom used as a sentence like this in Korean.

Woman

The ancient way to say Woman

jīn guó
巾
幗

This is the very old way to say woman in Chinese. A common title ancient China, this actually refers to the scarf or head wrapping worn by virtually all women at that time.

This is kind of a cool way to say Woman now. The actual gender character alone on a wall scroll would actually just look like a fancy sign for the woman's restroom (WC).

女If you are curious, the character to the right directly means female or woman. This is useful information if you are a woman in need of a toilet in China.

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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.

A nice Chinese calligraphy wall scroll

The scroll that I am holding in this picture is a "medium 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)

A professional Chinese Calligrapher

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 Romanized Chinese
Beauty Shop / Beauty Salon美容店
美容店
n/aměi róng diàn
mei rong dian
mei jung tien
mei3 rong2 dian4
meirongdian
Fancy范茜
范茜
n/afàn qiàn
fan qian
fan ch`ien
fan4 qian4
fanqian
fanchien
fan chien
Fancy Nails时尚甲
時尚甲
n/ashí shàng jiǎ
shi shang jia
shih shang chia
shi2 shang4 jia3
shishangjia
Flower
hanahuā
hua
hua1
hua
Four Noble Truths: Desire and Attachment集谛
集諦
jittaijí dì
ji di
chi ti
ji2 di4
jidi
A Traditional Warm Welcome欢迎光临
歡迎光臨
n/ahuān yíng guāng lín
huan ying guang lin
huan ying kuang lin
huan1 ying2 guang1 lin2
huanyingguanglin
Woman巾帼
巾幗
n/ajīn guó
jin guo
chin kuo
jin1 guo2
jinguo

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 I spent hundreds of hours making images so that you could view the characters in the "Fancy" 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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