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Here's the full proverb, 以牙还牙以眼还眼, with the first and second parts.
However, in Chinese, it's more natural to put the “tooth” part first, so this more accurately reads “Tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye.”
If revenge is important to you, I suppose this is the phase you want on your wall.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 以眼還眼 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
以眼還眼 以眼还眼 see styles |
yǐ yǎn huán yǎn yi3 yan3 huan2 yan3 i yen huan yen |
More info & calligraphy: Eye for an eye |
以眼還眼,以牙還牙 以眼还眼,以牙还牙 see styles |
yǐ yǎn huán yǎn , yǐ yá huán yá yi3 yan3 huan2 yan3 , yi3 ya2 huan2 ya2 i yen huan yen , i ya huan ya |
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom); fig. to use the enemy's methods against him; to give sb a taste of his own medicine |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Eye for an eye | 以眼還眼 以眼还眼 | yǐ yǎn huán yǎn yi3 yan3 huan2 yan3 yi yan huan yan yiyanhuanyan | i yen huan yen iyenhuanyen |
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Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth | 以牙還牙以眼還眼 以牙还牙以眼还眼 | yǐ yá huán yá yǐ yǎn huán yǎn yi3 ya2 huan2 ya2 yi3 yan3 huan2 yan3 yi ya huan ya yi yan huan yan yiyahuanyayiyanhuanyan | i ya huan ya i yen huan yen iyahuanyaiyenhuanyen |
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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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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.
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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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