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Mandarin: tiān shēng yí duì
It was tough to find the best way to say "soul mates" in Chinese. We settled on this old way to say "A couple selected by heaven".
The first two characters together mean "natural" or "innate". Separated, they mean "heaven" and "born". The last two characters mean "couple". So this can be translated as "A couple that is together by nature", or "A couple brought together by heaven's decree", with a slight stretch, you could say "A couple born together from heaven".
It's a struggle to find the best way to describe this idea in English, but trust me, it is pretty cool and it is a great way to say "soulmates".
If you're in a happy relationship or marriage and think you have found your soul mate, this would be a wonderful wall scroll to hang in your home.
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: líng hún bàn lǚ
Japanese: reikon hanryo
Korean: 령혼반려 or 영혼반려
This is the literal translation of "Soul Mates". Meaning it is kind of the western way to express "soul mates", but translated into Chinese. The first two characters mean "soul" or "spirit". The second two characters mean "mate", "companion" or "partner".
These are also two words in Korean Hanja, but not often seen together like this - however, it does have the same good meaning in Korean.
This is not a great title in Japanese - The meaning is correct, but it is not commonly used.
Score: 100/100
Mandarin: yuán fèn
These two characters contain the ideas of fate. But this is specifically the fate or destiny that brings two people together.
This is like the chance meeting of two people that leads some time later to marriage.
This could also be the chance meeting of two business people, who become partners and build a huge and successful company.
Basically, this is an idea often associated with a fateful meeting leading to good fortune.
Some will define this word as, "The destiny brings you two together", or "Meant to be".
Note: Second character can also be written without the left radical, as shown to the right. If you have a preference, please let use know in the special instructions for your project. There is no difference in meaning or pronunciation, just two (alternate) ways to write the same character.
See Also... Good Fortune
Score: 24/100
Mandarin: zhì yǒu
This one way to say best friend in Chinese.
The first character can mean "most", "extreme" or "best".
The second character means "friend" or "friends" (plural forms work differently in China).
Can also be translated as "close friend" or "most intimate friend".
See Also... Friendship
Score: 24/100
Mandarin: zhì jiāo
This an alternate way to say best friend in Chinese.
The first character can mean "most", "extreme" or "best". The second character means "making friends" or "building friendship". There's sort of a suggestion with the second character that fate caused you to intersect in life and become friends (that character can mean intersection in some context).
This can also mean "most intimate friend", "very good friend of long standing", or "closest friend".
See Also... Friendship
Score: 24/100
Mandarin: zhì yǒu
This one way to say best friend in Chinese.
The first character can mean "honest" or "most sincere". The second character means "friend" or "friends" (plural forms work differently in Chinese).
See Also... Friendship
Score: 24/100
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
2-3 characters $39.88 each
4 characters $49.88 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:
2-3 Characters:
USD $39.88
GBP £24.20
EUR €26.92
CAD $42.74
AUS $43.87
4 Characters:
USD $49.88
GBP £30.27
EUR €33.67
CAD $53.45
AUS $54.88
Customizations that you select may raise or lower the price.
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) | |||
| Soul Mates | 天生一对 天生一對 | n/a | tiān shēng yí duì tian sheng yi dui | tian1 sheng1 yi2 dui4 tianshengyidui | ||
| Soul Mates (literal) | 灵魂伴侣 靈魂伴侶 | reikon hanryo reikonhanryo | líng hún bàn lǚ ling hun ban lv | ling2 hun2 ban4 lv3 linghunbanlv | ||
| Fate / Chance Meeting | 缘份 / 缘分 緣份 / 緣分 | n/a | yuán fèn yuan fen | yuan2 fen4 yuanfen | ||
| Best Friends / Closest Friend | 至友 至友 | n/a | zhì yǒu zhi you | zhi4 you3 zhiyou | ||
| Best Friends | 至交 至交 | n/a | zhì jiāo zhi jiao | zhi4 jiao1 zhijiao | ||
| Most Sincere Friend / Honest Friend / Real Friend / Best Friend | 挚友 摯友 | n/a | zhì yǒu zhi you | zhi4 you3 zhiyou | ||
| 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 "soulmates" 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 Soulmates Kanji, Soulmates Characters, Soulmates in Chinese Writing, Soulmates in Japanese Writing, Soulmates in Asian Writing, Soulmates Ideograms, Chinese Soulmates symbols, Soulmates Hieroglyphics, Soulmates Glyphs, Soulmates in Chinese Letters, Soulmates Hanzi, Soulmates in Japanese Kanji, Soulmates Pictograms, Soulmates in the Chinese Written-Language, or Soulmates in the Japanese Written-Language.
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