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Hokkien Surname
This is a Hokkien surname that is often romanized as Chan.
The meaning is great- (as in great-grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, etc.).
In some context, can mean already. In Japanese, this can be a surname that romanizes as Son.
愛憎 is a weird selection for a calligraphy wall scroll. But if you really want it, we'll do it.
This version is most appropriate if your audience is Japanese or Korean (for Koreans who can read the ancient Korean Hanja).
The first character means love or affection.
The second character means hate, dislike, detest, or loathe.
赠人玫瑰手留余香 is a proverb that has been translated several ways:
1. Roses given, fragrance in hand.
2. You present others roses, and the fragrance remains.
3. The fragrance of the rose always remains on the hand of those that bestow them.
4. A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands which gives the flowers
However, this literally translates as “Give someone rose flowers, [your] hands keep [the] remaining fragrance.”
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your zeng search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
曾 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng son そん |
More info & calligraphy: Chan(prefix) great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother); (surname) Son already |
愛憎 爱憎 see styles |
ài zēng ai4 zeng1 ai tseng aizou / aizo あいぞう |
More info & calligraphy: Love and Hatelove and hate Love and hate, desire and dislike. |
増 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng zou / zo ぞう |
Japanese variant of 增[zeng1] increase; (surname) Masuzaki |
增 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng zō |
(bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to To increase, add, augment, more. |
憎 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng zō |
to detest Hate, dislike. |
橧 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng |
dwelling on top of wooden stakes |
甑 see styles |
zèng zeng4 tseng koshiki; sou / koshiki; so こしき; そう |
cauldron; rice pot (1) (See 蒸篭・1) steaming basket (traditionally clay or wood); (2) (こしき only) steaming vat (for steaming rice in sake production); (surname) Koshiki |
矰 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng |
arrow with a streamer |
繒 缯 see styles |
zèng zeng4 tseng shō |
to tie; to bind wide silk fabric |
罾 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng |
large square net |
贈 赠 see styles |
zèng zeng4 tseng sō |
to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old) A present (at parting), a souvenir; posthumous honours; a title patent. |
鄫 see styles |
zēng zeng1 tseng |
surname Zeng; Zhou vassal state; also pr. [Ceng2] |
鋥 锃 see styles |
zèng zeng4 tseng |
polished; shiny |
不增 see styles |
bù zēng bu4 zeng1 pu tseng fuzō |
does not increase |
倍增 see styles |
bèi zēng bei4 zeng1 pei tseng baizō |
to double; to redouble; to increase many times over; to multiply by a factor; multiplication more and more |
劇增 剧增 see styles |
jù zēng ju4 zeng1 chü tseng |
dramatic increase |
可憎 see styles |
kě zēng ke3 zeng1 k`o tseng ko tseng |
disgusting |
回贈 回赠 see styles |
huí zèng hui2 zeng4 hui tseng |
to give sb (a gift) in return |
増意 see styles |
zēng yì zeng1 yi4 tseng i sōi |
Viśeṣamati |
增一 see styles |
zēng yī zeng1 yi1 tseng i zōichi |
incremental |
增上 see styles |
zēng shàng zeng1 shang4 tseng shang zōjō |
Additional, increase, superior, strengthened. |
增伺 see styles |
zēng sì zeng1 si4 tseng ssu zōshi |
covetousness |
增值 see styles |
zēng zhí zeng1 zhi2 tseng chih |
to appreciate (financially); to increase in value; value-added (accountancy) |
增光 see styles |
zēng guāng zeng1 guang1 tseng kuang |
to add luster; to add glory |
增兵 see styles |
zēng bīng zeng1 bing1 tseng ping |
to reinforce; to increase troop numbers; reinforcements; extra troops |
增刊 see styles |
zēng kān zeng1 kan1 tseng k`an tseng kan |
additional publication; supplement (to a newspaper) |
增刪 增删 see styles |
zēng shān zeng1 shan1 tseng shan |
add and delete |
增加 see styles |
zēng jiā zeng1 jia1 tseng chia |
to raise; to increase |
增劫 see styles |
zēng jié zeng1 jie2 tseng chieh zōkō |
The kalpa of increment, during which human life increases by one year every century, from an initial life of ten years, till it reaches 84,000 (and the body from 1 foot to 8,400 feet in height), in the 滅劫 similarly diminishing. |
增厚 see styles |
zēng hòu zeng1 hou4 tseng hou |
to thicken |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Chan | 曾 | son | zēng / zeng1 / zeng | tseng |
Love and Hate | 愛憎 爱憎 | ai zou / aizou / ai zo | ài zèng / ai4 zeng4 / ai zeng / aizeng | ai tseng / aitseng |
Tenzin | 丹增 | dān zēng / dan1 zeng1 / dan zeng / danzeng | tan tseng / tantseng | |
Zendaimimon | 曾代米蒙 | zēng dài mǐ méng zeng1 dai4 mi3 meng2 zeng dai mi meng zengdaimimeng | tseng tai mi meng tsengtaimimeng |
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Rose Flowers Given, Frangrance Remains on Hands of Giver | 贈人玫瑰手留余香 赠人玫瑰手留余香 | zèng rén méi guī shǒu liú yú xiāng zeng4 ren2 mei2 gui1 shou3 liu2 yu2 xiang1 zeng ren mei gui shou liu yu xiang | tseng jen mei kuei shou liu yü hsiang | |
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.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
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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.
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