Many custom options...

Tan Paper and Copper Silk Love Wall Scroll
Red Paper and Ivory Silk Love Wall Scroll
Orange Paper Love Scroll
Crazy Blue and Gold Silk Love Scroll


And formats...

Love Vertical Portrait
Love Horizontal Wall Scroll
Love Vertical Portrait

Shirts in Chinese / Japanese...

Buy a Shirts calligraphy wall scroll here!

Personalize your custom “Shirts” project by clicking the button next to your favorite “Shirts” title below...

Prosperity

(also means salary)

 lù
 fuchi
 
Prosperity Scroll

祿 is occasionally used in China to mean prosperity or good fortune.
祿 once meant the “official's salary” in old feudal China and Korea (obviously, the officials lived well, so you can imagine how this was associated with the idea of being prosperous).

祿 is only used in Korean historical documents for “salary.” In old Japanese, this means fief, allowance, stipend, reward, pension, grant, and sometimes happiness depending on context. It's very obscure in modern Japanese.

We have other entries that are better suited for a prosperity wall scroll. This entry just addresses “the coffee cup issue” where this character has been used on coffee cups and tee-shirts. However, without context, the meaning is ambiguous to some.

 ài
 ai
 
Love Scroll

愛 universally means love in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, old Korean Hanja, and old Vietnamese.

愛 is one of the most recognized Asian symbols in the West and is often seen on tee shirts, coffee mugs, tattoos, and more.

愛 can also be defined as affection, to be fond of, to like, or to be keen on. It often refers to romantic love, and is found in phrases like, “I love you.” But in Chinese, one can say, “I love that movie” using this character as well.

This can also be a pet name or part of a pet name in the way we say “dear” or “honey” in English.

This can be a girl’s name “Ai” in both Chinese and Japanese.


More about this character:

This may be hard to imagine as a westerner but the strokes at the top of this love character symbolize family & marriage.

心The symbol in the middle is a little easier to identify. It is the character for "heart" (it can also mean "mind" or "soul"). I guess you can say that no matter if you are from the East or the West, you must put your heart into your love.

友The strokes at the bottom create a modified character that means "friend" or "friendship."

I suppose you could say that the full meaning of this love character is to love your family, spouse, and friends with all of your heart, since all three elements exist in this character.


See Also:  I Love You | Caring | Benevolence | Friendliness | Double Happiness Happy Marriage Wall Scroll


Not the results for shirts that you were looking for?

Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your shirts search...

Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

府綢


府绸

see styles
fǔ chóu
    fu3 chou2
fu ch`ou
    fu chou
poplin (cotton cloth used for shirts)

The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Prosperity祿
fuchilù / lu4 / lu
Love
aiài / ai4 / ai
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.


Dictionary

Lookup Shirts in my Japanese & Chinese Dictionary


Successful Chinese Character and Japanese Kanji calligraphy searches within the last few hours...

5 Tenets of TaekwondoA Journey of a Thousand MilesAbnerAbraAdamsAdeelAdenAdiaAdnanAftabAhriAikido YoshinkanAimanAinsleyAizaAizahAjaniAjayAkakaAkashAkbarAkiraAkitaAkumaAlastorAlexanderAlfiAliaAliceAlinaAlishaAlizeAlondraAlways and ForeverAlways FaithfulAlyaAmarionAmirAnalynAndyAngelAngelikaAnishaAnjaliAnkitaAnneAnthonyAnupAnushkaArchangelArcherArekAriaArionArissaArleyArneArniArunAsaadAseelAshaAshwiniAsiyasanAslamAthenaAtticusAuraAustinAutumnAveryAysiaAziraAzuraBahrainBaileBalanced LifeBarbaraBe Like WaterBe True to YourselfBeauBeautiful HeartBeautiful SpiritBeautiful Woman ProverbBeckBeginner MindBelieve in YourselfBest Friends ForeverBibekBirgitBlack BeltBlacksmithBlessingsBlood Sweat and TearsBloomingBodaishinBodhiBonsai TreeBoys Be AmbitiousBrahmaviharaBrannonBrave HeartBrave the Wind and the WavesBrave WarriorBrayanBraydenBreatheBritneyBrodieBroken SoulBrotherhoodBruce LeeBrysonBucharestBuddhaBuffyBufordBujinBushido CodeCadeCaineCalm and CollectedCarlCarmelaCarolineCarpe DiemCarsonCarterCasanovaCatherineCedricCelineCerysChantalChaosCharisseChazCherry BlossomCheyenneChi EnergyChoiChop Wood Carry WaterChristianityChristinaCianaClaireClarkClaudiaCocoColeCommitmentConstantineCourageCourage and StrengthDanaDanceDark AngelDavidDeath Before DishonorDegasDelilahDennisDestiny Determined by HeavenDetermination to AchieveDiahDianneDickDietrichDimitraDimitriDionDitaDivine LightDivyaDoodDouble HappinessDragonDragon SoulDripping Water Penetrates StoneDu Mu PoetryDuncanDwayneEarth DragonEdgarEdithEgyptEight ImmortalsEkaterinaElenaEliasEllieElohimElvaElvisEmeryEmielEmilioEmmaEnjoy LifeEren

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.


A nice Chinese calligraphy wall scroll

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.

A professional Chinese Calligrapher

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.

Trying to learn Chinese calligrapher - a futile effort

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.

A high-ranked Chinese master calligrapher that I met in Zhongwei

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.

Some people may refer to this entry as Shirts Kanji, Shirts Characters, Shirts in Mandarin Chinese, Shirts Characters, Shirts in Chinese Writing, Shirts in Japanese Writing, Shirts in Asian Writing, Shirts Ideograms, Chinese Shirts symbols, Shirts Hieroglyphics, Shirts Glyphs, Shirts in Chinese Letters, Shirts Hanzi, Shirts in Japanese Kanji, Shirts Pictograms, Shirts in the Chinese Written-Language, or Shirts in the Japanese Written-Language.