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This is how to write "rain" in Chinese. If rain has some significance to you in your life, this is the character you want.
See Also... Storm | Water | Wave
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: bèi yǔ lín guò de rén bù pà lù shuǐ










Characters shown
above are read
vertically, starting
from the right
This literally translates as:
One who has been drenched by the rain is not afraid of dew drops.
Figuratively, this means:
One who has gone through hardships is not afraid of (minor)setbacks.
Score: 100/100


The first character means, "wise" or "smart" and the second character means "intelligence".
I have also seen these two characters translated together as knowledge, sagacity, sense, and intelligence.
Note: This word is used commonly in Chinese and is a less-common word in Japanese and Korean. If your audience is Japanese, I suggest our other Japanese wisdom option.
This means intellect or wisdom in Japanese too, but is a more unusual way to write this word (though both versions are pronounced the same in Japanese).
See Also... Learn From Wisdom
Score: 35/100


This is a common word to express the idea of freedom in both Chinese and Japanese.
This word is the essence of "being free" but also acts as the suffix to create words like freestyle swimming, free trade, civil liberties, free will, freedom fighter, religious freedom, and liberal.
Note: If you need any of these other words or meanings, just post your request on our Asian calligraphy forum.
Score: 34/100
Best for Japanese audience
Mandarin: bào fēng
Japanese: baku fuu / bou fuu
Korean: 폭풍


This is the Japanese Kanji and old Korean Hanja word for storm (can also mean gale, tempest, typhoon, hurricane, gale, violent wind, or windstorm - especially in Korean and Chinese).
If the meaning of storm is somehow important or significant to you, these are the Kanji you want.
The first Kanji means violent or sudden. The second Kanji means wind.
This also means storm in Chinese, but more in regards to a wind storm than a general storm. It's about the same for this word in Korean.
Score: 25/100


This is the Chinese word for storm.
If the meaning of storm is somehow important or significant to you, these are the characters you want.
The first character means wind, and the second means violent or sudden.
Note: This would be understood in Korean Hanja, however, Koreans would generally use these characters in reverse order.
See Also... Wave
Score: 25/100

This is the title for electricity in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
While this character means electric or electricity, it can also be used to mean lightning in Japanese and Korean.
See Also... Thunder | Power | Energy
Score: 24/100


This is the title for lightning in Chinese.
The first character means, flash, or to dodge / get out of the way. In this case, it's the "flash" meaning. Sometimes this character can be used to mean lightning by itself.
The second character means electricity.
Score: 24/100
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.
More RAIN 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) | |||
| Rain | 雨 雨 | ame | yǔ yu | yu3 yu | ||
| One who is drenched in rain does not fear drops of dew | 被雨淋过的人不怕露水 被雨淋過的人不怕露水 | n/a | bèi yǔ lín guò de rén bù pà lù shuǐ bei yu lin guo de ren bu pa lu shui | bei4 yu3 lin2 guo4 de ren2 bu4 pa4 lu4 shui3 | ||
| Wisdom | 智慧 智慧 | chie | zhì huì zhi hui | zhi4 hui4 zhihui | ||
| Freedom / Liberty | 自由 自由 | jiyuu jiyu | zì yóu zi you | zi4 you2 ziyou | ||
| Storm / Windstorm | 暴风 暴風 | baku fuu / bou fuu bakufuu/boufuu baku fu / bo fu | bào fēng bao feng | bao4 feng1 baofeng | ||
| Storm | 风暴 風暴 | n/a | fēng bào feng bao | feng1 bao4 fengbao | ||
| Electricity / Lightning | 电 電 | den | diàn dian | dian4 dian | ||
| Lightning | 闪电 閃電 | n/a | shǎn diàn shan dian | shan3 dian4 shandian | ||
| 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 "rain" 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 Rain Kanji, Rain Characters, Rain in Chinese Writing, Rain in Japanese Writing, Rain in Asian Writing, Rain Ideograms, Chinese Rain symbols, Rain Hieroglyphics, Rain Glyphs, Rain in Chinese Letters, Rain Hanzi, Rain in Japanese Kanji, Rain Pictograms, Rain in the Chinese Written-Language, or Rain in the Japanese Written-Language.
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