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Mandarin: hēi
Japanese: kuro
Korean: 흑
This is the color black in Chinese, Japanese, and old Korean Hanja.
In some context this can mean "dark" or "evil".
There is an alternate form of this character which is commonly-used in modern Japan (shown to the right). If you want this alternate/Japanese form, just click on the character to the right, instead of the button above.
Score: 100/100
(Japanese Only)
Japanese: kuroobi
Korean: 흑대
These are the Kanji for "Black Belt" in Japanese.
This would be the gift to buy someone who is about to achieve the rank of black belt, or perhaps for yourself, like a certificate on the wall to subtly show your accomplishment.
Note: with a tiny stroke difference on the second character, this also means black belt in Korean Hanja. Let me know if you need the exact Korean version (though any Korean who can read Hanja will know this is black belt).
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: hēi àn
This is the two-character Chinese word for darkness.
The first character alone means black or dark.
The second character has several possible meanings, depending on context; They include: to shut the door, unilluminated, dark, gloomy, hidden, secret.
Together, these two characters will, in most cases, simply be translated as "dark" or "darkness".
Score: 16/100
Japanese: ankoku
Korean: 암흑
This is the two-character Japanese word for darkness.
The first Kanji alone means dark, gloomy, or disorder.
The second Kanji simply means black in Japanese.
Together, these two Kanji will almost always be translated as "dark" or "darkness".
A slight variation of these characters is used in old Korean, with the meaning of blackness or darkness (Korean pronunciation included above, but let us know if you want the slight alternate stroke second Hanja as used in old Korea).
Score: 11/100
Mandarin: àn
Japanese: yami
Korean: 암
This is the single-character, and rather universal way (in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja) to write "darkness".
In Chinese this can mean: dark, gloomy, hidden, secret, to shut the door, unilluminated.
In Japanese this can mean: darkness, the dark, black-marketeering, dark, shady, illegal.
In old Korean Hanja this can mean: dark, obscure, hidden, secret.
Note that there is an alternate form of this character. It is used as an alternate in all three languages (that rarely happens). You can see this alternate version to the right. If you want to order that version, please click on that character, instead of the button above.
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
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
Customizations that you select may raise or lower the price.
More BLACK 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) | |||
| Black | 黑 / 黒 黑 | kuro | hēi hei | hei1 hei | ||
| Black Belt | 黑帯 黒帯 | kuroobi kurobi | n/a | |||
| Darkness | 黑暗 黑闇 | n/a | hēi àn hei an | hei1 an4 heian | ||
| Darkness (Japanese) | 闇黒 暗黑 | ankoku | n/a | |||
| Darkness | 暗 闇 | yami | àn an | an4 an | ||
| 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 "black" 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 Black Kanji, Black Characters, Black in Chinese Writing, Black in Japanese Writing, Black in Asian Writing, Black Ideograms, Chinese Black symbols, Black Hieroglyphics, Black Glyphs, Black in Chinese Letters, Black Hanzi, Black in Japanese Kanji, Black Pictograms, Black in the Chinese Written-Language, or Black in the Japanese Written-Language.
All custom calligraphy items are made-to-order in our little Beijing artwork-mounting workshop.
Please note: Rush service can be as fast as two weeks, but regular service is over a month for delivery.
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