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feminine name
Mandarin: ài lín
This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name Ailin
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: yī fán fēng shùn
Korean: 일범풍순
This is just what you think it means. It suggests that you are on a trouble-free voyage through life, or literally on a sailing ship or sail boat. It is often used in China as a wish for good luck on a voyage or as you set out on a new quest or career in your life. Some may use this in lieu of "bon voyage".
The literal meaning is roughly, "Once you raise your sail, you will get the wind you need, and it will take you where you want to go". Another way to translate it is "Your sail and the wind follow your will".
This is a great gift for a mariner, sailor, adventurer, or someone starting a new career.
Note: Can be understood in Korean Hanja, but rarely used.
See Also... Bon Voyage | Adventure | Travel
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: píng wěn
Japanese: heion
Korean: 평온
This word can also be translated as calmness, quietness, quietude and is used in Chinese and Korean.
The version shown here, would be considered the ancient Japanese form. The second character has been simplified in Japan (the same simplified form is used in mainland China, except for calligraphy). Please include a special instruction with your order if you want the simplified form of that second character. Both forms can be universally read.
Score: 35/100
Mandarin: fēng zhú cán nián
This phrase means "Old and ailing with little time left" or "Not long for this world".
There is a real suggestion here that someone will die soon.
This was added by special request of a customer, and is perhaps, not the most positive phrase that you could put on a wall scroll.
This would be the most offensive possible gift to give to an older person - please do not do that!
Score: 16/100
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
2-3 characters $39.88 each
4 characters $49.88 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 $13 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 £24.20
EUR €26.92
CAD $42.74
AUS $43.87
4 Characters:
USD $49.88
GBP £30.27
EUR €33.67
CAD $53.45
AUS $54.88
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) | |||
| Ailin | 艾琳 艾琳 | n/a | ài lín ai lin | ai4 lin2 ailin | ||
| Smooth Sailing | 一帆风顺 一帆風順 | n/a | yī fán fēng shùn yi fan feng shun | yi1 fan2 feng1 shun4 yifanfengshun | ||
| Smooth and Steady | 平稳 平穩 | heion | píng wěn ping wen | ping2 wen3 pingwen | ||
| Not Long for this World | 风烛残年 風燭殘年 | n/a | fēng zhú cán nián feng zhu can nian | feng1 zhu2 can2 nian2 fengzhucannian | ||
| 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 "ailin" 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. | ||||||
Some people may refer to this entry as Ailin Kanji, Ailin Characters, Ailin in Chinese Writing, Ailin in Japanese Writing, Ailin in Asian Writing, Ailin Ideograms, Chinese Ailin symbols, Ailin Hieroglyphics, Ailin Glyphs, Ailin in Chinese Letters, Ailin Hanzi, Ailin in Japanese Kanji, Ailin Pictograms, Ailin in the Chinese Written-Language, or Ailin in the Japanese Written-Language.
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