ID | Chinese Pinyin | Chinese | English & Interpretation | Image |
1 | A La Bo Wen | 阿拉伯文 | Arabic script | |
2 | Ai Hu Wu Du | 艾虎五毒 | Chinese mugwort , tiger, and five noxious creatures | |
3 | An Ba Xian | 暗八仙 | Emblems of the Eight ImmortalsEight Taoist Immortals (an ba xian 暗八仙): the fan of Zhong Liquan 钟离权-扇, the double gourd of Iron-Crutch Li 铁拐李-葫芦, the bamboo drum of Zhang Guolao 张果老-鱼鼓, the lotus flower or bamboo colander of He Xiangu 何仙姑-莲花或笊篱, the flower basket of Lan Caihe 蓝采和-花篮, the sword of Lü Dongbin 吕洞宾-剑, the castanets of Imperial Uncle Cao 曹国舅-拍板, and the flute of Han Xiangzi 韩湘子 笛子. | |
4 | An Chun | 鹌鹑 | Quail | |
630 | An Cun Bai He | 安存百合 | May you both live in peace and enjoy perfect harmony | |
631 | An He Tu | 安和图 | May you enjoy peace and harmony | |
633 | An Ju (Tu) | 安居(图) | May you live in peace and contentment | |
632 | An Ju Le Ye | 安居乐业 | May you live and work in peace and contentment | |
634 | An Xi Tu | 安喜图 | May you enjoy peace and happiness | |
637 | Ba Bai Chang Chun | 八百长春 | May we have eternal spring all year round | |
635 | Ba Bai Xia Ling | 八百遐龄 | May you live for eight hundred years (Long may you live) | |
636 | Ba Bai You Ling | 八百有零 | Long may you live; May you live for more than eight hundred years | |
5 | Ba Bao | 八宝 | Eight Buddhist treasuresThe expression eight treasures (babao 八寶) can refer to two or three different sets of designs in Chinese decorative arts: the Eight Buddhist Emblems, the Emblems of the Eight Taoist Immortals, and a third set of miscellaneous treasures. The first is also known as the Eight Auspicious Emblems (ba ji xiang 八吉祥), consisting of the wheel, the conch, the umbrella, the canopy, the lotus flower or bamboo, the vase, the fish, and the knot (sometimes one of these is replaced by the flaming pearl) | |
6 | Ba Da Ma | 八大码 | Eight stylised lotus petals with emblems in them | |
7 | Ba Ge | 八哥 | Crested myna‘ba 八’ in ‘ba ge 八哥 Chinese Crested mynah’ can mean ‘eight 八 ba’ | |
8 | Ba Gua Qi | 八卦旗 | Banner with triagrams of yin-yang combination | |
9 | Ba Gua Wen | 八卦纹 | Eight Trigrams | |
2033 | Ba Ji Xiang | 八吉祥 | Eight Buddhist treasures | |
10 | Ba Jiao | 芭蕉 | Plantain | |
12 | Ba Jiao Gua Pu Tao Wen | 芭蕉瓜葡萄纹 | Design of plantain, melon, and grapes | |
11 | Ba Jiao Jiao | 芭蕉脚 | Plantain-leave designAround the foot of a vessel (e.g. jars or vases) | |
13 | Ba Jun | 八骏 | Eight steeds of the King of Mo of the Zhou dynasty | |
14 | Ba Lian Wen | 把莲纹 | Lotus-bouquet design | |
15 | Ba Man Jin Bao | 八蛮进宝 | Babarians paying tributes | |
16 | Ba Si Ba Wen | 八思巴文 | Phags-pa scriptAn alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan. | |
17 | Ba Xian | 八仙 | Eight Daoist Immortals钟离权 Zhong Liquan 铁拐李 Iron-Crutch Li 张果老 Zhang Guolao 何仙姑 He Xiangu 蓝采和 Lan Caihe 吕洞宾 Lü Dongbin 曹国舅 Imperial Uncle Cao 韩湘子 Han Xiangzi | |
18 | Ba Xian Yang Shou | 八仙仰寿 | Eight Daoist Immortals celebrating the birthday of Xiwangmu or ShoulaoEight Immortals paying birthday respects to the Queen Mother of the West | |
19 | Bai Cai | 白菜 | Green cabbage | |
638 | Bai Die | 百瓞 | Long may your family line flourish | |
20 | Bai Fu | 百福 | Hundred Bats (May all blessings be yours)Artist may repeat one particular visual element many times for conveying the numeral ’bai 百 hundred‘.‘蝠 fu’ in ‘bian fu 蝙蝠 bat’ is a pun on ‘福 fu’ for ‘good fortune’ or ‘happiness’. 以画面中重复的某个视觉元素以表示词’百‘,‘蝠’与‘福’谐音。 | |
639 | Bai Fu Bing Zhen | 百福并臻 | May all blessings be yours | |
640 | Bai Fu Fan Sheng | 百福繁生 | May all kinds of good fortunes come to you | |
21 | Bai He | 百合 | Lily bulb | |
22 | Bai Hua Bu Lu Di | 百花不露地 | Mille-fleurs | |
23 | Bai Hua Ting | 百花亭 | Mille-fleurs Pavilion | |
24 | Bai Hua Tu | 百花图 | Mille-fleurs | |
641 | Bai Ji | 百吉 | May you be blessed by good luck in all you do | |
642 | Bai Ji Ru Yi | 百吉如意 | May you be lucky in all you do and may all go as you wish | |
25 | Bai Ju Yi | 白居易 | Bai Juyi | |
643 | Bai Jue | 百爵 | May you have frequent promotions and enjoy enormous privilege | |
644 | Bai Lin Mei Shou | 百龄眉寿 | May you enjoy a ripe old age | |
645 | Bai Ling Shi Lu | 百龄食禄 | May you enjoy an official emolument up to a ripe old age | |
646 | Bai Lu | 百禄 | May you have an ample official income | |
647 | Bai Nian Hao He | 百年好合 | May you both enjoy each other’s company to a ripe old age | |
26 | Bai Niao Chao Feng | 百鸟朝凤 | Birds paying homage to the pheonixThe Worship of the Chinese Phoenix | |
648 | Bai Shi Da Ji | 百事大吉 | May your life in all its connections be blessed | |
649 | Bai Shi Duo Ji | 百世多吉 | May your family have a lot of good luck over hundreds of generations | |
650 | Bai Shi Ru Yi | 百事如意 | May everything turn out as you wish | |
27 | Bai Shou Ping | 百寿屏 | Screen with a hundred variations of the longevity character inscribed on it | |
28 | Bai Sou Tu | 百叟图 | Dinner party in honour of one hundred geriatric guests | |
651 | Bai Sui Fu Gui Ping An Ru Yi | 百岁富贵平安如意 | May you enjoy peace, wealth and privilege to a ripe old age and may every wish of yours come true | |
653 | Bai Sui Tu | 百岁图 | May you live for one hundred years | |
657 | Bai Tou Fu Gui | 白头富贵 | May you enjoy wealth and prestige to a ripe old age | |
658 | Bai Tou Mei Shou | 白头眉寿 | May you both live together to a ripe old age in married bliss | |
656 | Bai Tou San You | 白头三友 | May you enjoy a refined friendship up to a ripe old age | |
1064 | Bai Tou Tou Lao | 白头同老 | May you both live to a ripe old age | |
29 | Bai Tou Weng | 白头翁 | Chinese Bulbul‘bai tou 白头 white-headed’, of ‘bai tou wen 白头翁 Chinese bulbul’ (the white-headed-old-chap bird) can imply a ripe old age | |
659 | Bai Tou Xie Lao | 白头偕老 | May you both live together to a ripe old age in married bliss | |
30 | Bai Tu Ji | 白兔记 | Tale of the White Hare | |
31 | Bai Xian Wen | 白线纹 | | |
32 | Bai Yue | 拜月 | Praying under the moon | |
33 | Bai Yue Ting | 拜月亭 | Pavilion of Praying Under The Moon | |
660 | Bai Zi Qian Fang | 百子千房 | May you enjoy vast progeny | |
34 | Bai Zi Tu | 百子图 | Hundred-boy design | |
35 | Ban Chao | 班超 | Ban Chao投笔记 | |
36 | Ban Fu | 板斧 | Broad axe | |
37 | Bang Ze | 棒责 | Punishing by beating with a stick | |
39 | Bao Ci Guan Yuan | 抱瓷灌园 | | |
38 | Bao En Si | 报恩寺 | | |
40 | Bao Fu | 包袱 | Ribbon knot | |
41 | Bao Jiao Bei | 抱角杯 | | |
42 | Bao Shi | 宝石 | Precious stones | |
661 | Bao Xi Tu | 报喜图 | The harbinger of good news; May good news come your way! | |
43 | Bao Xiang Hua | 宝相花 | Stylised lotus-flower design | |
44 | Bao Ying Er | 抱婴儿 | Holding a baby in arms | |
45 | Bao Zi | 包子 | Stuffed bun | |
46 | Bao Zuo | 宝座 | Throne | |
662 | Bei Bei Feng Hou | 辈辈封侯 | May each generation of your family be made life peers | |
48 | Bei Jian Ren Zai Du Kou | 背剑人 | Man carrying a sword aross his shoulders | |
50 | Bei Ke Wen | 碑刻文 | Stele inscription | |
49 | Bei Lou | 背篓 | Carrying a basket on the back脚行僧 | |
51 | Bei Qin | 背琴 | Carrying a qin-zither on the back | |
52 | Beng Jia | 绷架 | Frame of embrodery | |
53 | Bi | 璧 | Bi ring | |
663 | Bi De Qi Shou | 必得其寿 | You are certain to enjoy longevity | |
54 | Bi Dian Wen | 篦点纹 | Comb-pricked dots pattern | |
664 | Bi Ding Duo Kui | 必定夺魁 | You are certain to come out the first in examinations | |
665 | Bi Ding Ru Yi | 必定如意 | Every wish of yours is certain to come about | |
666 | Bi Ding Sheng Guan | 必定升官 | Your promotion in civil service is certainly about to come | |
55 | Bi Ge | 臂搁 | Arm rest | |
56 | Bi Hu | 壁虎 | Gecko | |
57 | Bi Hua Wen | 篦划纹 | Incised comb pattern | |
58 | Bi Wen | 篦纹 | Combed pattern | |
59 | Bi Xi | 赑屃 | Bixi, pedestal for a tombstone | |
60 | Bi Xie | 辟邪 | Bixie | |
61 | Bian Ju Hua | 扁菊花 | Oval chrysanthemum blossom | |
62 | Bian Xing Lian Ban Wen | 变形莲瓣纹 | Stylised lotus-petal design | |
63 | Bian Zhi Wen | 编织纹 | Woven pattern | |
667 | Bing Di Shuang Gui | 并蒂双贵 | May you both enjoy prestige in your married life | |
64 | Bing Ding | 兵丁 | Soldier | |
65 | Bing Mei Wen | 冰梅纹 | Plum blossom on icy ground | |
66 | Bing Zhu Ye You | 秉烛夜游 | Loitering at night with a candle | |
71 | Bo Ya Zhong Ziqi | 伯牙钟子期 | Bo Ya Zhong Ziqi | |
67 | Bo Dao Qi Er | 伯道弃儿 | Bodao abandoning his son in order to save his brother's son | |
68 | Bo Gu Tu | 博古图 | Display of miscellaneous antiques | |
69 | Bo Lang | 波浪 | Wave pattern | |
70 | Bo Si Wen | 波斯文 | Persian script | |
72 | Bo Yi Shu Qi | 伯夷叔齐 | Boyi and Shuqi | |
73 | Bu Dai He Shang | 布袋和尚 | Budai, cloth-sack monk | |
74 | Bu Huang Tu | 捕蝗图 | Scene ofdestroying migratory locusts | |
75 | Bu Na Tu | 补纳图 | Scene of patching worn cassock | |
76 | Bu Ru | 哺乳 | Scene of breast feeding | |
77 | Bu Wen | 布纹 | Fabric pattern | |
79 | Bu Yi | 补衣 | Patching worn clothes | |
78 | Bu Yu | 捕鱼 | Fishing | |
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