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阿喀琉斯 is the name Achilles in Chinese (Mandarin).

奧雷留 is the name Aureliue in Chinese (Mandarin).

大流士 is the name Darius in Chinese (Mandarin).

達留斯 is the name Darrius in Chinese (Mandarin).

隨波逐流 is a Chinese proverb that means to drift with the waves and go with the flow.

This can be positive or negative, as it can also be used to mean following the crowd blindly.

古流武術 is the title “Ko-ryū Bujutsu” which basically means “old school martial arts” or “ancient flow martial arts.”

This is more a Japanese than a Chinese martial arts term but would be understood in Chinese as well.

劉 is the name Lau in Chinese (Mandarin).

劉家功夫 are the characters for the Lau Gar Kung Fu style of martial arts.

The romanization of “Lau Gar” comes from Cantonese. “Kung Fu” is the common romanization for English from the Mandarin “Gōng Fu” or Cantonese “Gung Fu” pronunciations.

Lau gar = Lau family.

劉易斯 is the name Lewis in Chinese (Mandarin).

劉 is the name surname Liu in Chinese (Mandarin).

While typically only read as a surname, the meaning of 劉 is battle-ax or asa a verb, to kill or slaughter.

劉備 is the name Liu Bei (161-223AD), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu.

In Japanese, this can be the name Ryuubi or Ryūbi. Most Japanese will be familiar with the Chinese historical figure, Liu Bei.

琉璃希婭 is the transliteration to Mandarin Chinese for the Latin / Spanish name Lucrecia.

劉本 is the name Reuben in Chinese (Mandarin).

In Chinese, 流氓 means rogue, hoodlum, hooligan, gangster, or a person engaged in immoral behavior.

In Japanese, this is a title for a refugee (though so rarely used and obscure that many Japanese will not recognize this word).

Please don't order this, it's only here for reference only. 流氓 is not appropriate for custom calligraphy!

赠人玫瑰手留余香 is a proverb that has been translated several ways:

1. Roses given, fragrance in hand.

2. You present others roses, and the fragrance remains.

3. The fragrance of the rose always remains on the hand of those that bestow them.

4. A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands which gives the flowers

However, this literally translates as “Give someone rose flowers, [your] hands keep [the] remaining fragrance.”

琉球 refers to the Ryukyu (Ryūkyū) Islands which include Okinawa and are located between Japan and Taiwan.

This can also refer to the Ryukyu kingdom of old Okinawa. Ryukyu is also used in martial arts terms for styles with origins in Okinawa.

糸東流氣目館空手道 is the title for Shito-Ryu Ki-Me-Kan Karate-Do.
A school of Karate.

Note that while this title can be pronounced in Chinese, it only makes complete sense in Japanese.

糸東流 is the title for Shito-Ryu.

Note that while this title can be pronounced in Chinese, it only makes complete sense in Japanese.

There is more than one way to translate the ancient Chinese military proverb, 平时多流汗战时少流血. Here are a few interpretations:

A drop of sweat spent in a drill is a drop of blood saved in war.

More practice will give one a better chance of success in real situations.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.

I heard this many times when I was a U.S. Marine but I had no idea at the time that it was actually an old Chinese proverb.

See Also:  Blood Sweat and Tears

天真武甲流兵法 is the Kanji title that romanizes as Tenshin Bukō-Ryū Heihō or Tenshin Buko-Ryu Heiho.

天真武甲流兵法 is a Japanese koryū martial art that has its roots in the Toda-ryū, founded in the late Muromachi period around the year 1560 by Toda Seigen.

This title can be pronounced in Chinese with a similar meaning, however, it should be considered a Japanese title.

一流 is the Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja for top quality, front-ranking, first-class, top grade, foremost, top-notch, or unique.

This means Wanderlust in Chinese.

流浪 means to drift about, to wander, to roam, nomadic, homeless, vagrant, vagrancy, wandering, nomadism, or wander aimlessly.

癖 means habit, hobby, tendency, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, or quirk.