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This is the Chinese and old Korean Hanja word for ocean. This can be pronounced in Japanese, and has the same meaning but is rarely seen alone in Japanese.
Besides ocean or sea, this character can also mean foreign, wide, or vast.
It's more common for Chinese people to use a different word “hai” for ocean or sea.
海洋 is probably the most common word for “ocean” in Japanese. 海洋 is also sometimes used in Chinese and Korean Hanja.
In Japan, this can also be a female given name when pronounced as Miyou or Unami.
This is a rarely-used word for ocean in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. This is here mostly for reference - please order a different ocean for your custom calligraphy wall scroll.
The first character means “big” or “great.”
The second means “ocean” or “body of water” (it can sometimes mean “foreign” but not in this case).
The first character designates that you are talking about a great or huge body of water (certainly a major ocean and not a smaller sea).
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 洋 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
洋 see styles |
yáng yang2 yang you / yo よう |
More info & calligraphy: Ocean(1) Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); (2) ocean; sea; (prefix) (3) foreign; Western; European; (personal name) Yōji |
大洋 see styles |
dà yáng da4 yang2 ta yang taiyou / taiyo たいよう |
More info & calligraphy: Great Sea(noun - becomes adjective with の) ocean; (personal name) Motohiro |
海洋 see styles |
hǎi yáng hai3 yang2 hai yang kaiyou / kaiyo かいよう |
More info & calligraphy: Oceanocean; sea; (female given name) Miyou |
大洋洲 see styles |
dà yáng zhōu da4 yang2 zhou1 ta yang chou |
More info & calligraphy: Oceania |
西洋棋 see styles |
xī yáng qí xi1 yang2 qi2 hsi yang ch`i hsi yang chi |
More info & calligraphy: Chess |
西洋将棋 see styles |
seiyoushougi / seyoshogi せいようしょうぎ |
More info & calligraphy: Chess |
一洋 see styles |
kunihiro くにひろ |
(personal name) Kunihiro |
七洋 see styles |
nanami ななみ |
(female given name) Nanami |
丈洋 see styles |
tomohiro ともひろ |
(personal name) Tomohiro |
三洋 see styles |
sān yáng san1 yang2 san yang sanyou / sanyo さんよう |
Sanyō, Japanese electronics company (1) (company) Sanyo; (2) (surname) San'you; (personal name) Mihiro |
世洋 see styles |
kunihiro くにひろ |
(given name) Kunihiro |
丞洋 see styles |
sukehiro すけひろ |
(personal name) Sukehiro |
両洋 see styles |
ryouyou / ryoyo りょうよう |
Orient and Occident; Atlantic and Pacific |
乃洋 see styles |
nahiro なひろ |
(personal name) Nahiro |
久洋 see styles |
hisahiro ひさひろ |
(given name) Hisahiro |
之洋 see styles |
yukihiro ゆきひろ |
(personal name) Yukihiro |
了洋 see styles |
norihiro のりひろ |
(personal name) Norihiro |
亘洋 see styles |
nobuhiro のぶひろ |
(personal name) Nobuhiro |
亜洋 see styles |
ami あみ |
(female given name) Ami |
亮洋 see styles |
sukehiro すけひろ |
(personal name) Sukehiro |
仁洋 see styles |
hitohiro ひとひろ |
(personal name) Hitohiro |
介洋 see styles |
sukehiro すけひろ |
(personal name) Sukehiro |
伊洋 see styles |
yoshihiro よしひろ |
(given name) Yoshihiro |
伸洋 see styles |
nobuhiro のぶひろ |
(given name) Nobuhiro |
位洋 see styles |
mihiro みひろ |
(personal name) Mihiro |
住洋 see styles |
sumihiro すみひろ |
(personal name) Sumihiro |
佑洋 see styles |
sukehiro すけひろ |
(personal name) Sukehiro |
佳洋 see styles |
yoshihiro よしひろ |
(given name) Yoshihiro |
俊洋 see styles |
toshihiro としひろ |
(given name) Toshihiro |
保洋 see styles |
yasuhiro やすひろ |
(given name) Yasuhiro |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Ocean | 洋 | you / yo | yáng / yang2 / yang | |
Ocean | 海洋 | kai you / kaiyou / kai yo | hǎi yáng / hai3 yang2 / hai yang / haiyang | |
Great Sea | 大洋 | tai you / taiyou / tai yo | dà yáng / da4 yang2 / da yang / dayang | ta yang / tayang |
Chess | 西洋棋 | xī yáng qí xi1 yang2 qi2 xi yang qi xiyangqi | hsi yang ch`i hsiyangchi hsi yang chi |
|
Oceania | 大洋洲 | dà yáng zhōu da4 yang2 zhou1 da yang zhou dayangzhou | ta yang chou tayangchou |
|
Chess | 西洋将棋 | seiyoushougi seiyoshogi |
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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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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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