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李小龍 is the real full name of Bruce Lee.
Many people have no idea that Bruce Lee had a “real” Chinese name. In Mandarin and Cantonese, he is known as “Lǐ XiǎoLóng” and “Léi SíuLùng” respectively.
He kept his family name pronunciation (Li = Lee). 李 is a common family name that also means “plum.”
His given name 小龍 (Xiao-Long), literally means “little dragon.” 李小龍 is why you often see the character for dragon associated with Bruce Lee on various posters etc.
For a pronunciation lesson, the “X” in Romanized Mandarin is pronounced like a “sh” sound but with your tongue at the bottom of your mouth. The vowel sound in “Long” is like the English “oh,” not like the “ah” sound in the English word “long.”
If you are a big Bruce Lee fan, you should know this information, and you should have this wall scroll hanging in your room or martial arts studio.
Note: Japanese use these same Chinese characters / Kanji to write Bruce Lee's real name (with different pronunciation - which is a bit like how the name “Bruce Lee” sounds in English).
See Also: Kung Fu | Martial Arts
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your Bruce Lee search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
葉問 叶问 see styles |
yè wèn ye4 wen4 yeh wen ippu man イップ・マン |
More info & calligraphy: Ip Man(person) Ip Man (Chinese martial artist); Yip Man |
截拳道 see styles |
jié quán dào jie2 quan2 dao4 chieh ch`üan tao chieh chüan tao jiikundoo / jikundoo ジークンドー |
More info & calligraphy: Jeet Kune Do{MA} Jeet Kune Do; Way of the Intercepting Fist (martial art founded by Bruce Lee) |
李小龍 李小龙 see styles |
lǐ xiǎo lóng li3 xiao3 long2 li hsiao lung |
More info & calligraphy: Bruce Lee |
李國豪 李国豪 see styles |
lǐ guó háo li3 guo2 hao2 li kuo hao |
Brandon Lee (1965-1993), American actor, son of Bruce Lee |
李振藩 see styles |
lǐ zhèn fān li3 zhen4 fan1 li chen fan |
Li Zhenfan (1940-1973), real name of the actor Bruce Lee 李小龍|李小龙[Li3 Xiao3 long2] |
ブルースリー see styles |
buruusurii / burusuri ブルースリー |
(person) Bruce Lee |
ブルース・リー see styles |
buruusu rii / burusu ri ブルース・リー |
(person) Bruce Lee |
Variations: |
kanfuubatto; kanfuu batto / kanfubatto; kanfu batto カンフーバット; カンフー・バット |
(named after Bruce Lee's use of nunchaku) two small plastic baseball bats connected with a chain (struck against each other during sports chants) (wasei: kungfu bats) |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Bruce Lee | 李小龍 李小龙 | bu ruu su ri buruusuri bu ru su ri | lǐ xiǎo lóng li3 xiao3 long2 li xiao long lixiaolong | li hsiao lung lihsiaolung |
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.
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