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1. Rose
2. Lily-Rose
3. Rose Flower
4. Rose Flowers Given, Frangrance Remains on Hands of Giver
5. Wild Rose
6. Lily-Rose
7. Iyla-Rose
8. Daina-Rose
10. Eliza-Rose
(Name used in botany and some poems)
野薔薇 is both the technical term for rose in the science of botany. However, it also means wild rose and can be found in some forms of poetry as well.
If you are wondering, this word for rose sounds good in Chinese, not like a super-technical such as the Latin words we use for scientific terms in the west).
(The flower of love)
(The flower of love)
薔薇 is the universal way to write rose (as in the flower) because it is understood in both Chinese and Japanese (same characters in either language). 薔薇 is also a common way to write about roses in Asian poetry. This can be translated as “wild rose” if you are looking for that title.
薔薇 is also how to write “rose” in old Korean Hanja (though they now use Hangul, and most Koreans of this generation will not be able to read this without a dictionary).
赠人玫瑰手留余香 is a proverb that has been translated several ways:
1. Roses given, fragrance in hand.
2. You present others roses, and the fragrance remains.
3. The fragrance of the rose always remains on the hand of those that bestow them.
4. A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands which gives the flowers
However, this literally translates as “Give someone rose flowers, [your] hands keep [the] remaining fragrance.”
野玫瑰 is the simplest way to write “wild rose” in Chinese.
The first word literally means wild. The second is the single-character form of rose or roses (plural or singular is not specified in Chinese characters). This can also be translated as “sweet briar.”
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Rose | 羅斯 罗斯 | luó sī / luo2 si1 / luo si / luosi | lo ssu / lossu | |
Rose | 野薔薇 野蔷薇 | nobara | yě qiáng wēi ye3 qiang2 wei1 ye qiang wei yeqiangwei | yeh ch`iang wei yehchiangwei yeh chiang wei |
Rose | ローズ | roozu / rozu | ||
Lily-Rose | 莉莉羅斯 莉莉罗斯 | lì lì luó sī li4 li4 luo2 si1 li li luo si lililuosi | li li lo ssu lililossu |
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Rose Flower | 玫瑰 | méi guì / mei2 gui4 / mei gui / meigui | mei kuei / meikuei | |
Rose Flower | 薔薇 蔷薇 | bara / shoubi bara / shobi | qiáng wēi qiang2 wei1 qiang wei qiangwei | ch`iang wei chiangwei chiang wei |
Rose Flowers Given, Frangrance Remains on Hands of Giver | 贈人玫瑰手留余香 赠人玫瑰手留余香 | zèng rén méi guī shǒu liú yú xiāng zeng4 ren2 mei2 gui1 shou3 liu2 yu2 xiang1 zeng ren mei gui shou liu yu xiang | tseng jen mei kuei shou liu yü hsiang | |
Wild Rose | 野玫瑰 | yě méi guì ye3 mei2 gui4 ye mei gui yemeigui | yeh mei kuei yehmeikuei |
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Lily-Rose | リリーローズ | ririi roozu ririiroozu riri rozu | ||
Iyla-Rose | イーラローズ | iira roozu / iiraroozu / ira rozu | ||
Iyla-Rose | 伊拉羅斯 伊拉罗斯 | yī lā luó sī yi1 la1 luo2 si1 yi la luo si yilaluosi | i la lo ssu ilalossu |
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Daina-Rose | 戴娜羅斯 戴娜罗斯 | dài nà luó sī dai4 na4 luo2 si1 dai na luo si dainaluosi | tai na lo ssu tainalossu |
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Hermione-Rose | 赫敏罗斯 | hè mǐn luó sī he4 min3 luo2 si1 he min luo si heminluosi | ho min lo ssu hominlossu |
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Hermione-Rose | ハーマイオニーローズ | haamaionii roozu haamaioniiroozu hamaioni rozu | ||
Eliza-Rose | イライザ・ローズ | iraiza roozu iraizaroozu iraiza rozu | ||
Eliza-Rose | 伊麗莎・羅斯 伊丽莎・罗斯 | yī lì shā luó sī yi1 li4 sha1 luo2 si1 yi li sha luo si yilishaluosi | i li sha lo ssu ilishalossu |
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Thorns Bramble Briar Patch Wild Rose | 荊棘 荆棘 | keikyoku | jīng jí / jing1 ji2 / jing ji / jingji | ching chi / chingchi |
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 Rose Kanji, Rose Characters, Rose in Mandarin Chinese, Rose Characters, Rose in Chinese Writing, Rose in Japanese Writing, Rose in Asian Writing, Rose Ideograms, Chinese Rose symbols, Rose Hieroglyphics, Rose Glyphs, Rose in Chinese Letters, Rose Hanzi, Rose in Japanese Kanji, Rose Pictograms, Rose in the Chinese Written-Language, or Rose in the Japanese Written-Language.