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自由意志 is a concept that has existed for thousands of years that humans can understand right and wrong, then make a decision one way or the other (thus affecting their fate).
Sources such as Confucius, Buddhist scriptures, the Qur'an, and the Bible all address this idea.
As for the characters shown here, the first two mean free, freedom, or liberty. The last two mean “will.”
Can be romanized from Japanese as jiyū-ishi, jiyuu-ishi, and sometimes jiyuu-ishii.
It's 자유의지 or jayuu-yiji in Korean and zìyóu yìzhì in Chinese.
See Also: Freedom | Strong Willed | Fate
自由 is a common word to express the idea of freedom in both Chinese and Japanese.
This word is the essence of “being free” but also acts as the suffix to create words like freestyle swimming, free trade, civil liberties, free will, freedom fighter, religious freedom, and liberal.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your jiyu search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
自由学園 see styles |
jiyuugakuen / jiyugakuen じゆうがくえん |
(place-name) Jiyū Gakuen (Christian school with a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright); Jiyu Gakuen |
自由 see styles |
zì yóu zi4 you2 tzu yu jiyuu / jiyu じゆう |
More info & calligraphy: Freedom / Liberty(noun or adjectival noun) freedom; liberty; (male given name) Yoriyoshi self-established |
GU see styles |
jiiyuu / jiyu ジーユー |
(company) GU (clothing retailer); (c) GU (clothing retailer) |
事用 see styles |
shì yòng shi4 yong4 shih yung jiyū |
phenomena and functions |
事由 see styles |
shì yóu shi4 you2 shih yu jiyuu / jiyu じゆう |
main content; matter; work; origin of an incident; cause; purpose; subject (of business letter) reason; cause |
似喩 see styles |
sì yù si4 yu4 ssu yü jiyu |
fallacious example; pseudo-example |
徐繼畬 徐继畲 see styles |
xú jì yú xu2 ji4 yu2 hsü chi yü |
Xu Jiyu (1795-1873), Chinese geographer |
似喩十過 似喩十过 see styles |
sì yù shí guò si4 yu4 shi2 guo4 ssu yü shih kuo jiyu jū ka |
ten fallacies in the example |
自由精進 自由精进 see styles |
zì yóu jīng jìn zi4 you2 jing1 jin4 tzu yu ching chin jiyu shōjin |
discretionary practice |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Free Will | 自由意志 | jiyuu ishi / jiyuuishi / jiyu ishi | zì yóu yì zhì zi4 you2 yi4 zhi4 zi you yi zhi ziyouyizhi | tzu yu i chih tzuyuichih |
Freedom Liberty | 自由 | jiyuu / jiyu | zì yóu / zi4 you2 / zi you / ziyou | tzu yu / tzuyu |
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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.
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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.
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