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I must first say that 現象 is an odd thing to put on a wall scroll in Asian cultures. It won't make a lot of sense alone unless you have a special or personal meaning that you attach to it for yourself.
These two characters mean phenomenon in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Hanja. They can also be translated as “a happening,” depending on context.
The sum of these characters is a little different than their individual meanings. But I will break it down anyway...
The first character means present, existing, actual, apparent, now, or current.
The second character alone means pattern after, imitate, image, shape, sign (of the times), form, appearance, to be like, to resemble, to take after, to seem, or elephant.
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Phenomenon | 現象 现象 | genshou / gensho | xiàn xiàng xian4 xiang4 xian xiang xianxiang | hsien hsiang hsienhsiang |
| Steaphen | 斯蒂芬 | sī dì fēn si1 di4 fen1 si di fen sidifen | ssu ti fen ssutifen |
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| Steaphen | スティーブン | sutiibun / sutibun | ||
| Stephen | 斯蒂芬 | sī dì fēn si1 di4 fen1 si di fen sidifen | ssu ti fen ssutifen |
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| Stephen | ステイーヴェン | suteiiven / suteiven | ||
| Stephenie | 斯蒂芬妮 | sī dì fēn nī si1 di4 fen1 ni1 si di fen ni sidifenni | ssu ti fen ni ssutifenni |
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| Stephens | 斯蒂芬斯 | sī dì fēn sī si1 di4 fen1 si1 si di fen si sidifensi | ssu ti fen ssu ssutifenssu |
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| Stephens | ステファンズ | sutefanzu | ||
| Stephenson | 斯蒂芬森 | sī dì fēn sēn si1 di4 fen1 sen1 si di fen sen sidifensen | ssu ti fen sen ssutifensen |
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| Stephenson | スティーブンソン | sutiibunson sutibunson | ||
| 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. | ||||
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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.
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