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Mandarin: hè
Japanese: tsuru
Korean: 학
This is a famous bird of China. Known in China to be a very spiritual creature, the crane is a symbol of both longevity, and the journey of souls and spirits of ancestors.
Note: This character can mean crane or stork in Japanese.
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: qǐ zhòng jī
Japanese: kijuuki
Korean: 기중기
A customer requested this specifically after a bit of confusion over the bird by the same name. This refers to the huge machine that lifts materials high into the air as crews construct huge buildings.
In an odd twist, where they don't know this name in English sounds like a bird, the building crane is jokingly called "The real national bird of China" because of the current level of construction in Beijing and elsewhere in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.
If you want the type of crane that drives down the road, please note that the word is totally different for the "vehicle crane". post your request on our Asian calligraphy forum if you need that title for some reason.
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: lóng hǔ shé bào hè
Korean: 룡호사표학
This is a list of the Chinese characters for the five animals of Shaolin Kung Fu in a comfortable order (meaning that they are in the proper order and will simply "feel right" to a Chinese person who views this arrangement).
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: lóng hǔ shé bào hè
Japanese: ryuu tora hebi hyou tsuru
Korean: 룡호사표학
This is a list of the Chinese characters for the five animals of Shaolin Kung Fu in a comfortable order (meaning that they are in the proper order and will simply "feel right" to a Chinese person who views this arrangement).
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: nán pài táng láng
Korean: 남파당랑
This can be translated literally as "Southern School Praying Mantis" or "Southern Style Praying Mantis".
Despite its name, the Southern Praying Mantis style of Chinese martial arts is unrelated to the Northern Praying Mantis style. Southern Praying Mantis is instead related most closely to fellow Hakka styles such as Dragon and more distantly to the Fujian family of styles that includes Fujian White Crane, Five Ancestors, and Wing Chun.
This style of martial arts focuses more on fighting skills rather than aesthetics.
Of course, you already knew that if you were looking for this term.
Note: This title can be pronounced and does have meaning in Korean, but only to Koreans familiar with Chinese martial arts.
Score: 16/100
Mandarin: wǔ zǔ quán
This is a martial arts concept (some would say "school") known as Five Ancestors' Fist.
The first character means five.
The second means ancestor, forefather, or grandparents.
The third means fist.
The ancestors referred to by this title and whose attributes contribute to this style are as follows:
1. Grace of the White Crane.
2. Agility of the Monkey.
3. Precision and skill of Emperor Taizu (mythical great ancestor).
4. Power of Luohan (Buddist arhat).
5. Breath of Damo (founder of Buddhism, or the first Buddha).
Score: 6/100
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $29.88 each
2-3 characters $39.88 each
4 characters $49.88 each
5-10 characters $59.88 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:
Single-Character:
USD $29.88
GBP £18.13
EUR €20.17
CAD $32.02
AUS $32.87
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
5-10 Characters:
USD $59.88
GBP £36.34
EUR €40.42
CAD $64.17
AUS $65.88
Customizations that you select may raise or lower the price.
More CRANE Asian artwork can be found here.
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) | |||
| Crane (bird) | 鹤 鶴 | tsuru | hè he | he4 he | ||
| Crane (construction) | 起重机 起重機 | kijuuki kijuki | qǐ zhòng jī qi zhong ji | qi3 zhong4 ji1 qizhongji | ||
| Dragon Tiger Snake Leopard Crane | 龙虎蛇豹鹤 龍虎蛇豹鶴 | n/a | lóng hǔ shé bào hè long hu she bao he | long2 hu3 she2 bao4 he4 longhushebaohe | ||
| Dragon Tiger Snake Leopard Crane | 龙虎蛇豹鹤 龍虎蛇豹鶴 | ryuu tora hebi hyou tsuru ryuutorahebihyoutsuru ryu tora hebi hyo tsuru | lóng hǔ shé bào hè long hu she bao he | long2 hu3 she2 bao4 he4 longhushebaohe | ||
| Southern Praying Mantis | 南派螳螂 南派螳螂 | n/a | nán pài táng láng nan pai tang lang | nan2 pai4 tang2 lang2 nanpaitanglang | ||
| Five Ancestors Fist | 五祖拳 五祖拳 | n/a | wǔ zǔ quán wu zu quan | wu3 zu3 quan2 wuzuquan | ||
| 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 "crane" 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 Crane Kanji, Crane Characters, Crane in Chinese Writing, Crane in Japanese Writing, Crane in Asian Writing, Crane Ideograms, Chinese Crane symbols, Crane Hieroglyphics, Crane Glyphs, Crane in Chinese Letters, Crane Hanzi, Crane in Japanese Kanji, Crane Pictograms, Crane in the Chinese Written-Language, or Crane in the Japanese Written-Language.
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