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We have many options to create artwork with Success characters on a wall scroll or portrait.
If you want to create a cool Success Asian character tattoo, just email us and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of success.
Mandarin: suǒ yǒu de chéng gōng dōu wú fǎ bǔ cháng jiā tíng de shī bài
Characters shown
above are read
vertically, starting
from the right
This could also be translated in English as "No success can compensate for failure in the home".
Mandarin:
jīng yàn shì zhì huì zhī mǔ
Characters shown
above are read
vertically, starting
from the right
It's been said that wisdom comes from good judgment, and good judgment comes from experience, while experience comes from a series of times when you used bad judgment.
This Chinese proverb makes the simplest connection between experience and wisdom.
See Also... Failure Is The Mother Of Success | Wisdom | Learn From Wisdom
Mandarin:
shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ
Korean: 실패시성공지모
Characters shown
above are read
vertically, starting
from the right
This means exactly what you think.
Every failure that you experience is a chance to learn from it and find success.
Knowing what does not work is just as important as finding out what does work.
See Also... Experience Is The Mother Of Wisdom
Mandarin: jī
Japanese: hata
Korean: 기
This is an odd one. I've seen this on coffee cups and posters with the meaning of "opportunity". This is a correct definition, but this character also means "machine". In fact, if you put the character for "flying" in front of this character, you have the Chinese word for "airplane" (literally: flying machine). Alone, on a wall scroll, it will be generally understood as "opportunity" but I want you to know this extra information before you make your selection. Note that in Japanese and Korean, this has a similar meaning, but can also mean machine or loom.
Mandarin: chéng gōng
Japanese: seikou
Korean: 성공
This Chinese and Japanese word for "success" is often used to refer to "career success", but is also used for other successes in life.
It matches the western dictionary definition of "The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted". And it's also used it this old Chinese proverb: 
which means Failure is the Mother of Success.
Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
1 character $28.88 each
2-3 characters $39.88 each
5-10 characters $59.88 each
11 or more characters $69.88 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 $12 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 $28.88
GBP £14.79
EUR €18.67
CAD $30.24
AUS $31.71
2-3 Characters:
USD $39.88
GBP £20.43
EUR €25.78
CAD $41.76
AUS $43.79
5-10 Characters:
USD $59.88
GBP £30.68
EUR €38.70
CAD $62.71
AUS $65.74
More than 10 Characters:
USD $69.88
GBP £35.80
EUR €45.17
CAD $73.18
AUS $76.72
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) | |||
| Any success can not compensate for failure in the home | 所有的成功都无法补偿家庭的失败 所有的成功都無法補償家庭的失敗 | n/a | suǒ yǒu de chéng gōng dōu wú fǎ bǔ cháng jiā tíng de shī bài | suo3 you3 de cheng2 gong1 dou1 wu2 fa3 bu3 chang2 jia1 ting2 de shi1 bai4 | ||
| Experience is the Mother of Wisdom | 经验是智慧之母 經驗是智慧之母 | n/a | jīng yàn shì zhì huì zhī mǔ | jing1 yan4 shi4 zhi4 hui4 zhi1 mu3 | ||
| Failure is the Mother of Success | 失败是成功之母 失敗是成功之母 | n/a | shī bài shì chéng gōng zhī mǔ | shi1 bai4 shi4 cheng2 gong1 zhi1 mu3 | ||
| Opportunity | 机 機 | hata | jī | ji1 | ||
| Success | 成功 成功 | seikou | chéng gōng | cheng2 gong1 | ||
| 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 "Success" 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. | ||||||
All custom calligraphy items are made-to-order in our little Beijing artwork-mounting workshop.
Normal delivery isjust over 3 weeksfor these handmade items.
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