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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Leonardo | 利奧納多 利奥纳多 | lì ào nà duō li4 ao4 na4 duo1 li ao na duo liaonaduo | li ao na to liaonato |
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Leonardo | レオナード | reonaado / reonado | ||
Leonardo | 萊昂納多 莱昂纳多 | lái áng nà duō lai2 ang2 na4 duo1 lai ang na duo laiangnaduo | lai ang na to laiangnato |
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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. |
All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
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.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
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.
Some people may refer to this entry as Leonardo Kanji, Leonardo Characters, Leonardo in Mandarin Chinese, Leonardo Characters, Leonardo in Chinese Writing, Leonardo in Japanese Writing, Leonardo in Asian Writing, Leonardo Ideograms, Chinese Leonardo symbols, Leonardo Hieroglyphics, Leonardo Glyphs, Leonardo in Chinese Letters, Leonardo Hanzi, Leonardo in Japanese Kanji, Leonardo Pictograms, Leonardo in the Chinese Written-Language, or Leonardo in the Japanese Written-Language.