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1. Great Aspirations / Ambition
3. Great Sea
9. Great Wisdom
10. Grand Master / Great Teacher
This Chinese proverb implies that having great ambitions also means that others will not understand your great expectations and ideas.
Though the actual words come from a longer saying of Confucius which goes, "The little swallows living under the eaves wouldn't understand the lofty ambitions of a swan (who flies far and wide)".
This Confucius quote has led to this idiomatic expression in China that means "think big". What you'd really be saying is "The lofty ambitions of a swan".
Note that Chinese people sometimes refer to the little swallow, as one who does not "think big" but is, instead, stuck in a rut, or just leading a mundane life. Therefore, it's a compliment to be called a swan but not a good thing to be called a swallow.
努力 means great effort; to strive; to try hard; great effort; great exertion; great endeavor (endeavour); great effort; to strive.
This "striving endeavor" word is valid in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
大洋 is a rarely-used word for ocean in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. 大洋 is here mostly for reference - please order a different ocean for your custom calligraphy wall scroll.
The first character means "big" or "great".
The second means "ocean" or "body of water" (it can sometimes mean "foreign" but not in this case).
The first character designates that you are talking about a great or huge body of water (certainly a major ocean and not a smaller sea).
大不列顛 is the Chinese name for Great Britain.
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乘風破浪 is a Chinese proverb that represents having great ambitions.
The British might say "to plough through". Another way to understand it is, "surmount all difficulties and forge ahead courageously".
This can also be translated as, "braving the wind and waves", "to brave the wind and the billows", "to ride the wind and crest the waves", or "to be ambitious and unafraid".
Literally it reads: "ride (like a chariot) [the] wind [and] break/cleave/cut [the] waves", or "ride [the] wind [and] slash [through the] waves".
乘風破浪 is a great proverb to encourage yourself or someone else not to be afraid of problems or troubles, and when you have a dream just go for it.
There is an alternate version, 長風破浪, but 乘風破浪 is far more common.
般若 means great wisdom or wondrous knowledge.
In the Buddhist context, this is prajna or prajñā, to know, to understand, to have the wisdom required to attain enlightenment.
Since this is a wisdom which transcends the realm of logic, the pure, absolute wisdom beyond the reach of words and concepts, it is not obtained
through learning, but is realized for the first time through a religious experience.
大師 is a way to title a great master, grand master, or great teacher.
This can be used in the context of martial arts or a Buddhist teacher. Thus, it can be used to title a living Buddha, Bodhisattva or high-ranking monk.
長城 is the Chinese name for the Great Wall.
Built at the northern border of China to protect from Mongol attack.
Notes:
In Japanese, this can be a surname Nagaki. Japanese often use a longer title for the Great Wall of China.
In Korean, this refers to Changsŏng (a city in Changsŏng-kun county, Chŏllanam-to province).
大君 is the Japanese word Taikun. It's defined directly as liege, lord, or an alternate title for a shogunate.
The sound of this Japanese word entered the English lexicon by the 1800's but took the spelling of "tycoon". Even President Lincoln was referred to as a Tycoon in the 1860's.
In Japan, this is still understood to be "Great Lord" or "Big Boss". In America, it means, "Bill Gates" and "Warren Buffet".
大望 is one of a few ways to write "dream big" in Japanese.
大望 is a good title if you want that to inspire ambition or high aspirations. 大望 is also a way to say "great expectations".
望 holds the ideas of ambition, hope, desire, aspiring to, expectations, looking towards, to gaze (into the distance), and in some context full moon rising.
望 is one of those single characters that is vague but in that vagueness, in also means many things.
望 is a whole word in Chinese and old Korean but is seldom seen alone in Japanese. Still, it holds the meanings noted above in all three languages.
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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 | |
Great Aspirations Ambition | 鴻鵠之誌 鸿鹄之志 | hóng hú zhī zhì hong2 hu2 zhi1 zhi4 hong hu zhi zhi honghuzhizhi | hung hu chih chih hunghuchihchih |
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Great Aspirations Ambition | 大志を抱 | tai shi wo idaku taishiwoidaku | ||
Great Endeavor To Strive | 努力 | doryoku / doryoku | nǔ lì / nu3 li4 / nu li / nuli | |
Great Sea | 大洋 | tai you / taiyou / tai yo / taiyo | dà yáng / da4 yang2 / da yang / dayang | ta yang / tayang |
Great Britain | 英國 英国 | ei koku / eikoku | ||
Great Britain | 大不列顛 大不列颠 | dà bù liè diān da4 bu4 lie4 dian1 da bu lie dian dabuliedian | ta pu lieh tien tapuliehtien |
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Door of Great Wisdom | 大智慧門 大智慧门 | dai chi e mon daichiemon | dà zhì huì mén da4 zhi4 hui4 men2 da zhi hui men dazhihuimen | ta chih hui men tachihhuimen |
Great Ambitions | 乘風破浪 乘风破浪 | chéng fēng pò làng cheng2 feng1 po4 lang4 cheng feng po lang chengfengpolang | ch`eng feng p`o lang chengfengpolang cheng feng po lang |
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Daimyo Great Name | 大名 | dai myou / daimyou / dai myo / daimyo | dà míng / da4 ming2 / da ming / daming | ta ming / taming |
The Great Wall of China | 万里の長城 | ban ri no chou jou banrinochoujou ban ri no cho jo banrinochojo | ||
Great Wisdom | 般若 | hannya | bō rě / bo1 re3 / bo re / bore | po je / poje |
Grand Master Great Teacher | 大師 大师 | daishi | dà shī / da4 shi1 / da shi / dashi | ta shih / tashih |
The Great Wall of China | 長城 长城 | chou jou / choujou / cho jo / chojo | cháng chéng chang2 cheng2 chang cheng changcheng | ch`ang ch`eng changcheng chang cheng |
Great Lord Tycoon | 大君 | tai kun / taikun | ||
Heroic Spirit Great Ambition | 雄心 | yuushin / yushin | xióng xīn xiong2 xin1 xiong xin xiongxin | hsiung hsin hsiunghsin |
Big Dream Great Hope | 大望 | tai mou / taimou / tai mo / taimo | ||
Great Expectations | 望 | bou / nozomi bo / nozomi bo / nozomi | wàng / wang4 / wang | |
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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