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Mandarin: zhú
Japanese: take
Korean: 죽
This is the character that means bamboo in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja. In Asian cultures, bamboo is often seen as a symbol of a noble gentleman (being tall, straight, and honest).
There are also some multi-character bamboo words that regard individual bamboo plants, species of bamboo, bamboo as lumber, and edible bamboo shoots. However, this single-character seems most appropriate for a wall scroll, and covers the whole category of Asian bamboo.
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: bǎi chǐ gān tóu gèng jìng yī bù
Characters shown
above are read
vertically, starting
from the right
This literally translates as: [Even a] one-hundred foot [tall] bamboo [can] progress even one [more] step.
Figuratively, this means: After having achieved a fair degree of success, one should try to do still better.
Score: 100/100
Mandarin:
kāi juàn yǒu yì
Korean: 개권유익
There are several ways to translate this ancient proverb. Translated literally and directly it says, "Open roll has/yields benefit".
To understand that, you must know a few things...
First, Chinese characters and language have deeper meanings that often are not spoken, but are understood - especially with ancient text like this. Example: It's understood that the "benefit" referred to in this proverb is to the mind of the reader. Just the last character expresses that whole idea.
Second, Chinese proverbs are supposed to make you think, and leave a bit of mystery to figure out.
Third, for this proverb, it should be noted that roll = book. When this proverb came about (close to two thousand years ago) books were really rolls of bamboo slips strung together. The first bound books like the ones we use today did not come about until some thousand years after this proverb when they invented paper in China.
This is a great gift for a bookworm who loves to read and increase their knowledge. Or for any friend that is or wants to be well-read.
Score: 6/100
Mandarin: jiǎn
Korean: 간
This character expresses the idea of something simple, or the essence of simplicity in life.
This can also refer to a simple slip of bamboo for taking notes or writing a letter (especially in Korean Hanja).
See Also... Brevity
Score: 6/100
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $29.88 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
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 BAMBOO 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) | |||
| Bamboo | 竹 竹 | take | zhú zhu | zhu2 zhu | ||
| Even The 100-Foot Bamboo Can Grow One More Foot | 百尺竿头更进一步 百尺竿頭更進一步 | n/a | bǎi chǐ gān tóu gèng jìng yī bù bai chi gan tou geng jing yi bu | bai3 chi3 gan1 tou2 geng4 jing4 yi1 bu4 baichigantougengjingyibu | ||
| An Open Book Benefits Your Mind | 开卷有益 開卷有益 | n/a | kāi juàn yǒu yì kai juan you yi | kai1 juan4 you3 yi4 kaijuanyouyi | ||
| Simplicity | 简 簡 | n/a | jiǎn jian | jian3 jian | ||
| 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 "bamboo" 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 Bamboo Kanji, Bamboo Characters, Bamboo in Chinese Writing, Bamboo in Japanese Writing, Bamboo in Asian Writing, Bamboo Ideograms, Chinese Bamboo symbols, Bamboo Hieroglyphics, Bamboo Glyphs, Bamboo in Chinese Letters, Bamboo Hanzi, Bamboo in Japanese Kanji, Bamboo Pictograms, Bamboo in the Chinese Written-Language, or Bamboo in the Japanese Written-Language.
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Please note: Rush service can be as fast as two weeks, but regular service is over a month for delivery.
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