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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Dan
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the female / feminine name Dana.
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name Daniela
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This is another common transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Daniel. This version drops off the third character, so it sounds a bit more like Danny than Daniel. I think our main version of Daniel is better, but this is a popular transliteration according to our research on Chinese Google.
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name Celdán
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name Adán
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Aidan
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Brendan
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This is the most popular transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Daniel.
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This is an alternate transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Daniel.
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Danielle
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This is a kind of complex ten-character proverb composed by Zhuge Liang about 1800 years ago. The proverb means "Leading a simple life will yield a clear mind, and having inner peace will help you see far (into the world)".
What I have translated as "simple life" means NOT being materialistic and NOT competing in the rat race.
The last word means "far", but the deeper meaning is that you will surpass what you can currently see or understand. Perhaps even the idea of opening up vast knowledge and understanding of complex ideas.
The whole phrase has a theme that suggests if you are NOT an aggressive cut-throat person who fights his way to the top no matter how many people he crushes on the way, and instead seek inner peace, you will have a happier existence and be more likely to understand the meaning of life.
See Also... Serenity
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This character refers to different turtles in different languages. See individual language notes below:
Japanese: This means "snapping turtle" or "mud turtle".

This is Trionyx Sinensis.
Chinese: This means soft-shelled turtle. A specific species, Trionyx Sinensis which is native to Asia.
In China, this species is related to the "wang ba", a soft-shelled turtle sometimes known in English as a banjo turtle (due to it's long neck, and general shape). Unfortunately, there is a word, "wang ba dan" which means the egg of this species of turtle. That term has come to mean "bastard" in Chinese (a turtle hatches from an abandoned egg, and does not know who his mother or father is). This is not a good selection for a wall scroll if your audience is Chinese.
In Korean, this character can be pronounced (though most Koreans would have to look it up in a dictionary). It has not been in common use in Korea for at least a few hundred years.
General notes: You may notice that the bottom half of this character is the same as some other turtle-related titles. That bottom half is actually an ancient character that means "toad".
Though not see in this way today, most turtle-related characters hold the meaning of "a toad with a shell" in their ancient origin. That toad character is rarely used alone anymore, but you can see what it looks like in the image to the right.
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Danny
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Dante
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Dany
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Denise
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This is the Chinese name for the country of Denmark
See Also... Sweden | Norway | Finland | Europe
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Dennis
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This is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the name Jordan
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Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $29.88 each
2-3 characters $39.88 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.
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.
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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) | |||
| Dan | 丹 丹 | n/a | dān dan | dan1 dan | ||
| Dana | 丹娜 丹娜 | n/a | dān nà dan na | dan1 na4 danna | ||
| Daniela | 丹涅拉 丹涅拉 | n/a | dān niè lā dan nie la | dan1 nie4 la1 danniela | ||
| Daniel | 丹尼 丹尼 | n/a | dān ní dan ni | dan1 ni2 danni | ||
| Celdan | 塞尔丹 塞爾丹 | n/a | sè ěr dān se er dan | se4 er3 dan1 seerdan | ||
| Bhutan | 不丹 不丹 | n/a | bù dān bu dan | bu4 dan1 budan | ||
| Adan | 阿丹 阿丹 | n/a | ē dān e dan | e1 dan1 edan | ||
| Aidan | 艾丹 艾丹 | n/a | ài dān ai dan | ai4 dan1 aidan | ||
| Brendan | 布兰丹 布蘭丹 | n/a | bù lán dān bu lan dan | bu4 lan2 dan1 bulandan | ||
| Daniel | 丹尼尔 丹尼爾 | n/a | dān ní ěr dan ni er | dan1 ni2 er3 dannier | ||
| Daniel | 丹尼耳 丹尼耳 | n/a | dān ní ěr dan ni er | dan1 ni2 er3 dannier | ||
| Danielle | 丹妮尔 丹妮爾 | n/a | dān nī ěr dan ni er | dan1 ni1 er3 dannier | ||
| A Life of Serenity Yields Understanding | 淡泊以明志宁静而致远 淡泊以明志寧靜而致遠 | n/a | dàn bó yǐ míng zhì, níng jìng ér zhì yuǎn dan bo yi ming zhi, ning jing er zhi yuan | dan4 bo2 yi3 ming2 zhi4, ning2 jing4 er2 zhi4 yuan3 | ||
| Japanese Snapping Turtle Chinese Soft Shell Turtle | 鼈 鼈 | suppon supon | biē bie | bie1 bie | ||
| Danny | 丹尼 丹尼 | n/a | dān ní dan ni | dan1 ni2 danni | ||
| Dante | 丹堤 丹堤 | n/a | dān dī dan di | dan1 di1 dandi | ||
| Dany | 丹尼 丹尼 | n/a | dān ní dan ni | dan1 ni2 danni | ||
| Denise | 丹妮丝 丹妮絲 | n/a | dān nī sī dan ni si | dan1 ni1 si1 dannisi | ||
| Denmark | 丹麦 丹麥 | n/a | dān mài dan mai | dan1 mai4 danmai | ||
| Dennis | 丹尼斯 丹尼斯 | n/a | dān ní sī dan ni si | dan1 ni2 si1 dannisi | ||
| Jordan | 乔丹 喬丹 | n/a | qiáo dān qiao dan | qiao2 dan1 qiaodan | ||
| Sudan | 苏丹 蘇丹 | n/a | sū dān su dan | su1 dan1 sudan | ||
| 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 "dan1" 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 Dan Kanji, Dan Characters, Dan in Chinese Writing, Dan in Japanese Writing, Dan in Asian Writing, Dan Ideograms, Chinese Dan symbols, Dan Hieroglyphics, Dan Glyphs, Dan in Chinese Letters, Dan Hanzi, Dan in Japanese Kanji, Dan Pictograms, Dan in the Chinese Written-Language, or Dan in the Japanese Written-Language.
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