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The natural world
自然 is the simple way to express nature in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
This can also be translated as “the natural world.”
In Japanese and Korean, this term is sometimes used to signify spontaneity or a spontaneous act.
In the context of Taoism or Daoism, this is a key concept that literally means “of its own” or “by itself” and thus naturally, natural, spontaneously, freely, or in the course of events.
Also known as known as ziran or tzu-jan
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your jan search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
偶然 see styles |
ǒu rán ou3 ran2 ou jan guuzen / guzen ぐうぜん |
More info & calligraphy: Serendipity(n,adj-na,adj-no) (1) (ant: 必然・1) coincidence; chance; accident; fortuity; (adverb) (2) by chance; unexpectedly; accidentally; (3) {phil} contingency |
必然 see styles |
bì rán bi4 ran2 pi jan hitsuzen ひつぜん |
More info & calligraphy: Inevitable(adj-no,adj-na) (1) (ant: 偶然・1) inevitable; necessary; certain; sure; (2) inevitability; necessity necessary |
愕然 see styles |
è rán e4 ran2 o jan gakuzen がくぜん |
More info & calligraphy: Amazing / Shocking / Astonished(adj-t,adv-to) astonished; shocked; amazed; astounded; aghast |
自然 see styles |
zì rán zi4 ran2 tzu jan jinen じねん |
More info & calligraphy: Nature(n,adv) (dated) occurring naturally (without human influence); (female given name) Minori svayaṃbhū, also 自爾; 法爾 self-existing, the self-existent; Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and others; in Chinese it is 'self-so', so of itself, natural, of course, spontaneous. It also means uncaused existence, certain sects of heretics 自然外道 denying Buddhist cause and effect and holding that things happen spontaneously. |
偶然性 see styles |
ǒu rán xìng ou3 ran2 xing4 ou jan hsing guuzensei / guzense ぐうぜんせい |
More info & calligraphy: Serendipitycontingency; fortuity; randomness; unpredictability; haphazardry |
大自然 see styles |
dà zì rán da4 zi4 ran2 ta tzu jan daishizen だいしぜん |
More info & calligraphy: Mother Naturenature; Mother Nature |
冄 冉 see styles |
rǎn ran3 jan |
variant of 冉[ran3] See: 冉 |
冉 see styles |
rǎn ran3 jan zen ぜん |
edge of a tortoiseshell; used in 冉冉[ran3 ran3] (surname) Zen |
嘫 see styles |
rán ran2 jan |
old variant of 然[ran2] |
染 see styles |
rǎn ran3 jan riyou / riyo りよう |
to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting dyeing; printing; (surname) Riyou To dye, infect, contaminate, pollute; lust. |
然 see styles |
rán ran2 jan zen ぜん |
correct; right; so; thus; like this; -ly (suffix) (often as 〜然とする) -like; (female given name) Ran To burn, simmer; so, yes; but, however. |
燃 see styles |
rán ran2 jan moyu もゆ |
to burn; to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes); to start (debate); to raise (hopes) (female given name) Moyu To set fire to, light, burn; idem 然 12 q.v. |
珃 see styles |
rǎn ran3 jan |
(jade) |
肰 see styles |
rán ran2 jan |
dog meat; old variant of 然[ran2] |
苒 see styles |
rǎn ran3 jan |
luxuriant growth; passing (of time) |
蚦 see styles |
rán ran2 jan |
variant of 蚺[ran2] |
蚺 see styles |
rán ran2 jan |
boa |
蛅 see styles |
rán ran2 jan |
a caterpillar |
髥 髯 see styles |
rán ran2 jan |
old variant of 髯[ran2] See: 髯 |
髯 see styles |
rán ran2 jan hige ひげ |
beard; whiskers (1) (kana only) moustache; beard; whiskers; (2) extremely short pulse appearing on an electrical signal |
䎃 see styles |
rǎn ran3 jan |
(ornithology) down |
一然 see styles |
yī rán yi1 ran2 i jan Ichinen |
Iryeon |
不染 see styles |
bù rǎn bu4 ran3 pu jan fusen ふせん |
(given name) Fusen undefiled unpolluted; unsullied |
不然 see styles |
bù rán bu4 ran2 pu jan funen |
not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...? ...is not like that |
了然 see styles |
liǎo rán liao3 ran2 liao jan ryounen / ryonen りょうねん |
to understand clearly; evident (given name) Ryōnen |
井然 see styles |
jǐng rán jing3 ran2 ching jan |
tidy, methodical |
亙然 see styles |
gèng rán geng4 ran2 keng jan kōnen |
penetratingly |
亦然 see styles |
yì rán yi4 ran2 i jan yaku nen |
also like this |
仍然 see styles |
réng rán reng2 ran2 jeng jan |
still; as before; yet |
使然 see styles |
shǐ rán shi3 ran2 shih jan |
(literary) to make it so; to dictate |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Jan | 雅恩 | yǎ ēn / ya3 en1 / ya en / yaen | ||
Jan | 簡 简 | jiǎn / jian3 / jian | chien | |
Jan | ジャン | jan | ||
Nature | 自然 | shi zen / shizen | zì rán / zi4 ran2 / zi ran / ziran | tzu jan / tzujan |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
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The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
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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