Questions tagged [calligraphy]
a type of visual art related to writing
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Translation of signature on family shadow box art (Characters identified: 賀壽圖 北海貝雕)
Can someone provide a translation of the signature captured from a shadow box picture. My dad bought it for my mum on their anniversary about 30 years ago but they have both passed away. The family ...
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Chinese painting signature and seal translation (Characters identified: 羅鼎華印)
I have a Chinese watercolour and the scene is two birds with flowers. I cannot interpret the signature nor the seal and really need some help on this.
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Why most cursive forms of two Chinese characters, “不” and “正”, have a different shape that violates the stroke order?
Tell me why most cursive forms of Chinese character, "不", is shaped like this:
Instead of this?:
Looks like four dots.
And another Chinese character, "正", shaped like this:
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What is the style called where we draw characters without lifting the brush?
Consider this artistic rendering of the 福 (fú, happiness) character:
Four characteristics stand out:
The stroke thickness is constant (like in seal script, 篆书).
The brush is never lifted (pushing to ...
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Translation and script type of Chinese calligraphy scroll (Characters identified: 高明配天 敬璧)
What is the translation of the text and seal on this scroll?
What is the script type of the large main text? Initially I thought it was seal script since the characters looked quite similar to those ...
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Identifying 紫砂壶 product description (Calligraphy)
I was gifted a 紫砂壶, and although I can read standard characters, I'm having a hard time piecing together this product description. Here is what I have so far, and I'm having to guess a lot:
五四三二一
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Chinese Collage Pictures made with paper, bamboo & Feathers (Characters identified: 松楓 沈陽)
We have a set of 3 collages bought from Hong Kongaround the 1970’s. Do you know who the artist is please?
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Translation of Chinese Scroll and Seal
Is someone able to help translate the text (calligraphy?) and seal on this scroll?
I had a go at translating the seal using guoxuedashi and http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/ but wasn't ...
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Is the 6-th stroke of 您 Pie or Dian?
Consider the character 您
My dictionary says that the 6th stroke is 撇 whereas the 8th stroke is 点.
Is there a difference between how these strokes are written ?
I mean the short 撇 in 你 and the left ...
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“Pixelating” the character 英
I would like to include a Chinese character (英) in a knitting pattern. To do so, I need to "pixelate" the character.
Is this an acceptable representation of the character and is it easily ...
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Convert handwritten Chinese Characters into Chinese Fonts
I have a list of Chinese names in Chinese calligraphy. I'd like to enter them in a website with my mouse and have the app provide the names in a Chinese font that I can cut and paste in a Family Tree (...
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What do these two single-character calligraphic artworks mean? (Characters identified: 忍, 壽)
My mother purchased calligraphy artwork with these two symbols many years ago and now I have them and do not know what they mean. They are lovely, but I'd rather not hang them in my home without ...
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translation of text and seals on painting (Poet identified: Pu Ru 溥儒)
its been in the family since the 1950's, I asked a friend but he couldn't read it. also google translate was rubbish. friend said the calligraphy was to hard.
added the very bottom bit
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Translation of seal script text (Poem identified: 元・譚處端《西江月・作伴修行未是》)
I've been trying to translate some seal script on a small piece a friend brought back from Japan.
I've been using http://www.guoxuedashi.com/ and hanziyuan.net to guess them and think I ended up with ...
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When does 木 as a character component get detached legs?
Is there any discernible rule concerning whether 木 as a component of a character has attached legs (as in 李) or has detached legs (as in 新)? Worse, this seems to vary from country to country.
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Help with Zen Painting translation?
Can anyone help with translating this? I think I see characters for Buddha, Chan Zen and Insight or Seeing Clearly?
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What about the orthography of 苹 (like in 苹果)? It seems consensus is missing
I recently came across an anomaly in Chinese orthography which I can't explain myself. Please take a look at the following picture (screenshot from the Duolingo course on Chinese, I guess in lecture "...
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Please help identify traditional Chinese painting
I've inherited a Chinese cloth painting from my ancestors. I'd be grateful if you could help me know more about the artwork through the signature and seal.
(Full artwork)
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Is there a website for generating xíngshū (semi-cursive script) from jiǎnhuàzì (simplified characters)?
Google Translate can be a useful tool for converting Simplified Chinese hanzi into Traditional Chinese — but I'm looking for a tool that will enable me to paste in a set of Simplified characters, and ...
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What are good resources for Chinese calligraphy?
Pen writing and brush writing is also welcome.
If possible, I hope you can give your evaluate for these resourses.
I have heard 灵飞经 is a good copybook. Are there something close to that?
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The number of “components” (potentially) to define a Chinese character typeface
This post goes into some hypotheticals on how long it might take to design a Chinese font compared to a Latin font.
It shows an image of potentially some "radicals" which could be used as the base ...
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How to write Chinese fluently?
After learning how to write chinese by directly copying characters from my phone or my computer (digital ones), I noticed that I still can’t decipher the character chinese people are writing.
I know ...
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Poem for Calligraphy Art
It maybe very dumb, stupid and unwise that I have an interest in learning to write Chinese calligraphy when I can't write more than hundred Chinese words, but still I always think Chinese calligraphy ...
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What are these characters from this chopsticks packaging?
What are the characters shown in the following chopsticks packaging?
I've no idea what the first character is and the Chinese speakers at the restaurant at which I was given this package couldn't ...
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Traditional alternative to 水寫布 (water-writing paper) for calligraphy practice?
I'd like to practice my writing with brush, and came across this textile that I think is used a lot in schools at least in Taiwan:
Image from http://detail.net114.com/chanpin/1018435996.html
It's ...
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What was the idea behind simplification, given 行書 existed?
Efforts of simplification of Chinese Characters predate the Communists by decades. I assume that all these native Chinese people in favour of simplification were infinitely better educated than I am. ...
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How are the Kanji in this Dictionary Ordered?
I don't understand the basis for the ordering of the Kanji in this dictionary:
http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/html/ho04/ho04_00717/index.html
It seems to be a Rime Dictionary and I found ...
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written characters: bèi vs jiàn
I have two books displaying different meannings for characters that look the same to me: What is the difference (if any) among the character for "bèi" (shell, money) and "jiàn" (to see)?
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How to spell these words in Chinese alphabets? [closed]
since there is a wide range of letters in Chinese language , I need your best offers on spelling (pronounce) these words by use of only Chinese Characters in its most accurate form ?
the spelling ...
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How to learn to read Chinese calligraphic paintings (and Chinese handwriting)?
I am able to read quite a few Chinese characters and can recognize most
of the elements (combinations of radicals and other stroke sequences) which
make up the 3500 or so or more characters found in ...
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What is the meaning of this calligraphy? [closed]
This slogan or motto is written in Chinese, though it comes from Korea. I have wondered many years what does it mean. Thank you for your help to understand it.
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Thanks to the answers so far, I ...
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What does this calligraphy say? who is it by? [closed]
I can't seem to find it anywhere, I was told it was by a famous Beijing lecturer (?). Thanks!
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Dot vs. slash in Chinese computer fonts
We have been working with a new character system that differentiates between a dot and a slash in Chinese characters.
The issue I have is being able to instinctively tell which one I should use. When ...
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Fast-written forms of 草书 characters
Are they frequently used? Which one of the three is applied more often: is it the 章草, the 今草 or the 狂草?
Are they different in comparison with the 行書?
Are there any online resourses to learn more ...
