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錦鯉 in Chinese / Japanese...

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Koi Fish / Nishiki Goi

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 jǐn lǐ
 nishiki goi
Koi Fish / Nishiki Goi Scroll

If you like or collect and maintain koi fish, 錦鯉 is the wall scroll for you.

Technically, this is a certain and revered species of “koi fish” in Japan, but it is the most normal selection for a wall scroll (more normal than the actual Kanji for “koi” or “fish” alone.

This literally means “brocade carp” or “embroidered carp.” This term is also used to mean the same thing in China (which is the origin of koi fish breeding and cultivation, several generations before they became popular in Japan).

For those of you that don't know, the Kanji for “koi” (which is pronounced “goi” in this entry) really means “carp.” If you want the word that means “koi fish,” it would just be the generic word for “carp fish.” That would include both colorful carp and the more mundane gray carp (the ones people eat if they don't mind lots of bones).


Not the results for 錦鯉 that you were looking for?

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

Characters

If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese

 Pronunciation
Romanization		 Simple Dictionary Definition

錦鯉

锦鲤

see styles		 jǐn lǐ
    jin3 li3
chin li
 nishikigoi
    にしきごい

More info & calligraphy:

Koi Fish / Nishiki Goi
koi (Cyprinus carpio haematopterus)
coloured carp; colored carp

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

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Koi Fish
Nishiki Goi		錦鯉
锦鲤		nishiki goi
nishikigoi		jǐn lǐ / jin3 li3 / jin li / jinlichin li / chinli
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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single-character wall scroll.
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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.

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