We have many options to create artwork with the Chinese characters / Asian symbols / Japanese Kanji for Freedom on a wall scroll or portrait.
If you want to create a cool Freedom Asian character tattoo, you can purchase that on our Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Image Service page and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of Freedom.
Quick links to words on this page...
| 1. To Be Free / Freedom 2. Freedom / Liberty 3. Free Spirit |
4. Free Will 5. Peaceful / Tranquil / Calm... |
![]() ![]() This has a good written-meaning for a wall scroll in Chinese. What I mean by that is while there is a way to say "freedom" orally, this word seems more appropriate for calligraphy. This can also be translated as "free and unfettered" from Chinese. This is a common word to express the idea of freedom in both Chinese and Japanese. ![]() ![]() The first two characters mean freedom or liberty. See Also... Independence ![]() ![]() The first two characters mean freedom or liberty. See Also... Independence This concept has existed for thousands of years that humans have the ability to understand right and wrong, then make a decision one way or the other (thus affecting their own fate). See Also... Strong Willed | Fate ![]() ![]() This is a nice word that means peaceful, tranquil, calm, composed, "free from worry", "public peace", tranquility, good health, well-being, or welfare in Chinese and Korean. |
The Chinese title written on this artwork is actually a poem about the freedom that birds enjoy.
Typical Gallery Price: $200.00
Your Price: $68.88
Euro €52.34
CAD $69.03
GBP £43.56
AUD $64.44
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.
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)
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 Romanized Chinese | |
| To Be Free / Freedom | 逍遥 逍遙 | shou you shouyou sho yo | xiāo yáo xiao yao hsiao yao | xiao1 yao2 xiaoyao |
| Freedom / Liberty | 自由 自由 | jiyuu jiyu | zì yóu zi you tzu yu | zi4 you2 ziyou |
| Free Spirit | 自由精神 自由精神 | n/a | zì yóu jīng shén zi you jing shen tzu yu ching shen | zi4 you2 jing1 shen2 ziyoujingshen |
| Free Spirit | 自由な精神 自由な精神 | ji yuu na sei shin jiyuunaseishin ji yu na sei shin | n/a | |
| Free Will | 自由意志 自由意志 | jiyuu ishi jiyuuishi jiyu ishi | zì yóu yì zhì zi you yi zhi tzu yu i chih | zi4 you2 yi4 zhi4 ziyouyizhi |
| Peaceful / Tranquil / Calm / Free From Worry | 安宁 安寧 | an nei annei | ān níng an ning | an1 ning2 anning |
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 "freedom" 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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