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珠玉 is a Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja word meaning gem.
Beyond just the word gem, this can refer to pearls and jades, jewels, clever remarks, beautiful writing, gems of wisdom, genius, or an outstanding person.
If your name is Gem, this is a nice way to represent your name in 3 Asian languages. Though the pronunciation will be far from Gem, the meaning of gem is really nice.
Note: In Japanese, this is sometimes used as the female given name, Tama.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 珠玉 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
珠玉 see styles |
zhū yù zhu1 yu4 chu yü shugyoku しゅぎょく |
More info & calligraphy: Gem(1) jewel; gem; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (2) (usu. as 珠玉の〜) gem (of a story, essay, etc.); accomplished work; beautiful piece; (female given name) Tama |
数珠玉 see styles |
juzudama; juzudama じゅずだま; ジュズダマ |
(kana only) Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi); coixseed; tear grass; adlay |
不吝珠玉 see styles |
bù lìn zhū yù bu4 lin4 zhu1 yu4 pu lin chu yü |
(idiom) (courteous) please give me your frank opinion; your criticism will be most valuable |
字字珠玉 see styles |
zì zì zhū yù zi4 zi4 zhu1 yu4 tzu tzu chu yü |
every word a gem (idiom); magnificent writing |
珠玉在側 珠玉在侧 see styles |
zhū yù zài cè zhu1 yu4 zai4 ce4 chu yü tsai ts`e chu yü tsai tse |
gems at the side (idiom); flanked by genius |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Gem | 珠玉 | shugyoku | zhū yù / zhu1 yu4 / zhu yu / zhuyu | chu yü / chuyü |
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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.
Check out my lists of Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls and Old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.