I am shipping orders on Thursday this week. News and More Info
Buy a Foo Dogs calligraphy wall scroll here!
Personalize your custom “Foo Dogs” project by clicking the button next to your favorite “Foo Dogs” title below...
While known in the west as fu dogs or foo dogs, these are actually guardian lions.
These are the lion statues traditionally placed at the entrance of Chinese imperial palaces, imperial tombs, temples, and high-ranking officials' homes. These days, you are more likely to see them at the entrance to a fancy Chinese restaurant.
石獅子 means “stone lion(s).”
人類 is the way to say mankind or humankind in Chinese.
It's kind of the “animal title” for humans. 人類 is the word you would use if you said this phrase in Chinese, “Mammals include dolphins, monkeys, dogs, and humans among others.”
人類 is a weird selection for a calligraphy wall scroll. But a customer begged me to add this word.
This in-stock artwork might be what you are looking for, and ships right away...
Gallery Price: $60.00
Your Price: $36.88
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your Foo Dogs search...
| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
火狗 see styles |
huǒ gǒu huo3 gou3 huo kou kaku |
More info & calligraphy: Fire Dog |
円 see styles |
yuán yuan2 yüan meguru めぐる |
yen (Japanese currency); Japanese variant of 圓|圆 (1) circle; (n,n-pref) (2) entirety; whole; full; complete; (3) (slang) money; dough; moola; (4) enclosure inside a castle's walls; (5) (ksb:) soft-shelled turtle; (suffix) (6) suffix for ship names; suffix for names of people (esp. infants); suffix for names of swords, armour, musical instruments, etc.; suffix for names of dogs, horses, etc.; (1) yen; Japanese monetary unit; (2) circle; (female given name) Meguru |
唚 吣 see styles |
qìn qin4 ch`in chin |
to vomit (of dogs and cats); to rail against; to talk nonsense |
狛 see styles |
koma こま |
(n,n-pref) (1) Korea (esp. the Goguryeo kingdom or the Goryeo dynasty); (2) (stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine; (surname, female given name) Koma |
狺 see styles |
yín yin2 yin |
snarling of dogs |
吽牙 see styles |
óu yá ou2 ya2 ou ya |
(onom.) the barking of dogs fighting |
夜摩 see styles |
yè mó ye4 mo2 yeh mo yama |
Yama, 'originally the Aryan god of the dead, living in a heaven above the world, the regent of the South; but Brahminism transferred his abode to hell. Both views have been retained by Buddhism.' Eitel. Yama in Indian mythology is ruler over the dead and judge in the hells, is 'grim in aspect, green in colour, clothed in red, riding on a buffalo, and holding a club in one hand and noose in the other': he has two four-eyed watch-dogs. M. W. The usual form is 閻摩 q. v. |
媒合 see styles |
méi hé mei2 he2 mei ho |
to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc) |
完了 see styles |
wán le wan2 le5 wan le wanra ワンラ |
to be finished; to be done for; ruined; gone to the dogs; oh no end (chi: wánliǎo); completion |
家狗 see styles |
jiā gǒu jia1 gou3 chia kou ie-no-inu |
A domestic dog, i.e. trouble, which ever dogs oneś steps. |
愛犬 爱犬 see styles |
ài quǎn ai4 quan3 ai ch`üan ai chüan aiken あいけん |
beloved pet dog (1) pet dog; beloved dog; (2) (See 愛犬家) love of dogs; fondness for dogs |
掐架 see styles |
qiā jià qia1 jia4 ch`ia chia chia chia |
(of dogs, roosters etc) to fight; to tussle; (of people) to have an altercation with sb (physical or verbal) |
犬猫 see styles |
inuneko いぬねこ |
(1) dogs and cats; pets; (2) (idiom) something trivial; worthless thing |
犬猿 see styles |
kenen けんえん |
(idiom) (See 犬猿の仲) cats and dogs (as an example of a bad relationship); dogs and monkeys |
犬科 see styles |
quǎn kē quan3 ke1 ch`üan k`o chüan ko inuka いぬか |
the canines Canidae; family containing domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, etc. |
犬馬 see styles |
kenba けんば |
dogs and horses; one's humble self |
狖狸 see styles |
yòu lí you4 li2 yu li yūri |
weasels and raccoon dogs |
狗屠 see styles |
kuto くと |
(1) (archaism) dog slaughter; killing of dogs; (2) (archaism) dog butcher |
狗戒 see styles |
gǒu jiè gou3 jie4 kou chieh kukai |
Dog-rule, dog-morals, i.e. heretics who sought salvation by living like dogs, eating garbage, etc. |
狗犬 see styles |
gǒu quán gou3 quan2 kou ch`üan kou chüan kuken |
dogs |
狛犬 see styles |
komainu こまいぬ |
(stone) guardian lion-dogs at Shinto shrine |
痴狗 see styles |
chī gǒu chi1 gou3 ch`ih kou chih kou |
Deluded dogs, i.e. the Hīnayāna śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas. |
癡狗 see styles |
chī gǒu chi1 gou3 ch`ih kou chih kou chiku |
deluded dogs |
群れ see styles |
mure むれ |
group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school; swarm; cluster (e.g. of stars); clump; pack (e.g. of dogs) |
落水 see styles |
luò shuǐ luo4 shui3 lo shui ochimizu おちみず |
to fall into water; to sink; overboard; fig. to degenerate; to sink (into depravity); to go to the dogs (1) waterpower; running water; (n,vs,vi) (2) falling overboard; (n,vs,vi) (3) draining (of a rice paddy before harvest); (place-name, surname) Ochimizu |
鷹犬 鹰犬 see styles |
yīng quǎn ying1 quan3 ying ch`üan ying chüan |
hawks and hounds; (fig.) running dogs; hired thugs |
イヌ属 see styles |
inuzoku イヌぞく |
Canis (genus of wolves, dogs, etc.) |
イヌ科 see styles |
inuka イヌか |
Canidae; family containing domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, etc. |
愛犬家 see styles |
aikenka あいけんか |
dog lover; person who loves dogs |
犬ヶ島 see styles |
inugashima いぬがしま |
(work) Isle of Dogs (2018 film); (wk) Isle of Dogs (2018 film) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Fu Dog Foo Dog | 石獅子 石狮子 | shí shī zi shi2 shi1 zi5 shi shi zi shishizi | shih shih tzu shihshihtzu |
|
| Human Race Humanity Mankind | 人類 人类 | jinrui | rén lèi / ren2 lei4 / ren lei / renlei | jen lei / jenlei |
| 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. | ||||
Successful Chinese Character and Japanese Kanji calligraphy searches within the last few hours...
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.
Check out my lists of Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls and Old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.
Some people may refer to this entry as Foo Dogs Kanji, Foo Dogs Characters, Foo Dogs in Mandarin Chinese, Foo Dogs Characters, Foo Dogs in Chinese Writing, Foo Dogs in Japanese Writing, Foo Dogs in Asian Writing, Foo Dogs Ideograms, Chinese Foo Dogs symbols, Foo Dogs Hieroglyphics, Foo Dogs Glyphs, Foo Dogs in Chinese Letters, Foo Dogs Hanzi, Foo Dogs in Japanese Kanji, Foo Dogs Pictograms, Foo Dogs in the Chinese Written-Language, or Foo Dogs in the Japanese Written-Language.
104 people have searched for Foo Dogs in Chinese or Japanese in the past year.
Foo Dogs was last searched for by someone else on Oct 18th, 2025