Sinfest Caligraphy Comic Strips

[dnoblett]

#1 Woman

 

Really cute strips about Characters, is Japanese, however most Kanji have same meanings as Hanzi the Chinese written language.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2000-02-17.gif

 

女

Chinese: Nǚ

Japanese: On'na

[dnoblett]

#2 Man

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2000-02-18.gif

 

男

 

Chinese: Nán

Japanese: Otoko

[mikeymark]

#2

http://sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/2000-02-18.gif

 

LOL! Man!

Very cool ! :D :D

[dnoblett]

#3 God

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2000-09-13.gif

 

Figure out the meaning of this character?

 

神

Chinese: Shén

Japanese: Kamisama = 神様

[dnoblett]

#4 Evil

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2000-09-14.gif

悪

Chinese: Xiéè 邪恶
Japanese: Waru 悪

[dnoblett]

#5 Dragon

 

This is an easy one:

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2000-09-15.gif

 

龍

Chinese: Lóng

Japanese: Ryū

[dnoblett]

#6 Heaven

 

Two Characters this time.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2001-03-06.gif

 

Kingdom of Heaven or Heaven.

 

天国

Chinese: Tiānguó

Japanese: Tengoku

[dnoblett]

#7 Hell

 

OK the opposite of Heaven must be Hell.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2001-03-07.gif

 

Time to sign over your soul to the devil, no strings attached! Honest!

 

地獄

Chinese: Dìyù

Japanese: Jigoku

[dnoblett]

#8 Dog

 

Last night I was watching my neighbor's dog working the downspout in the neighbor's house trying to get at a chipmunk that was holed up in the pipe.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2001-08-20.gif

 

犬

Chinese: Quǎn or Gǒu 狗

Japanese: Inu

[dnoblett]

#9 Cat

 

Here is one for the Don! Cats can be cute cuddly fur-balls!

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2001-08-21.gif

 

猫

 

Chinese: Māo

 

Cool, we say meow when describing cat talk, in Chinese it is called Māo!

 

Japanese: Neko

 

I sometimes play with Second Life a VR computer environment, some use avatars that are classified as Neko, for Cat People, makes sense Neko is Japanese for Cat.

[dnoblett]

#10 Love

 

This one you all need to learn fast.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2002-02-14.gif

 

愛

 

Chinese: Ài

Japanese: Ai

[dnoblett]

#11 War

 

War! huh-yeah

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing

Uh-huh

 

War! huh-yeah

What is it good for?

Absolutely nothing

Say it again y'all

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2003-02-19.gif

 

戦争

 

Chinese: Zhànzhēng 戰爭

Japanese: Sensō 戦争

[Kyle]

Dan, I've rather enjoyed these

[dnoblett]

Dan, I've rather enjoyed these

Yep, a friend posted on on Facebook, thought was cool, so checked out the comic strips, the artist has done them going back to 2000, just a few Kanji strips over the years, so I decided to run a thread sharing them.

[dnoblett]

#12 Peace

 

What comes after War? Hopefully Peace. Kinda like reading War and Peace!

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/2003-02-20.gif

 

 

平和

Chinese: Hépíng

Japanese: Heiwa

 

To add, my wife bought this bookmark at the local B&N bookstore a while back.

 

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad334/dnoblett/Calligraphy/Harmony.jpg