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地獄 is the way that hell is written in modern Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
There's more than one way to express hell but this is the one that has stood the test of time.
The first character refers to the ground or the earth.
The second character means jail or prison.
You can also translate this word as infernal, inferno, Hades, or underworld.
It should be noted that this is a somewhat terrible selection for a wall scroll. Hanging this in your home is like telling the world that your home is hell. Oddly, a lot of people search for this on our website, so I added it for reference.
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Hell | 地獄 地狱 | jigoku | dì yù / di4 yu4 / di yu / diyu | ti yü / tiyü |
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. |
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your inferno search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
火湖 see styles |
huǒ hú / huo3 hu2 huo hu |
burning lake; lake of burning sulfur; inferno (in Christian mythology) |
烈火 see styles |
liè huǒ / lie4 huo3 lieh huo rekka / れっか |
raging inferno; blaze raging fire; conflagration; (female given name) Retsuka |
陰曹 阴曹 see styles |
yīn cáo / yin1 cao2 yin ts`ao / yin tsao |
hell; the inferno |
烈火乾柴 烈火干柴 see styles |
liè huǒ gān chái / lie4 huo3 gan1 chai2 lieh huo kan ch`ai / lieh huo kan chai |
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile; fig. consuming passion between lovers |
焦熱地獄 焦热地狱 see styles |
jiāo rè dì yù / jiao1 re4 di4 yu4 chiao je ti yü shounetsujigoku / shonetsujigoku / しょうねつじごく |
(yoji) burning hell; inferno Tapana, the sixth of the eight hot hells; the 焦熱大焦熱 is the seventh, i.e. Pratāpana; scorching hot hell |
インフェルノ see styles |
inferuno / インフェルノ | inferno |
グリーンインフェルノ see styles |
guriininferuno / gurininferuno / グリーンインフェルノ | (wk) Green Inferno (film) |
インフェルノ;インヘルノ(ok) see styles |
inferuno;inheruno(ok) / インフェルノ;インヘルノ(ok) | inferno; hell |
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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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