Buy a Crazy Chinese & Japanese Calligraphy Wall Scroll

We have many options to create artwork with Crazy characters on a wall scroll or portrait.
If you want to create a cool Crazy wall scroll, this is the place. Below you will find a few Asian symbols for Crazy.


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  1. Crazy / Mad

  2. Crazy / Mad / Wild

  3. Crazy Love

  4. Anarchy

  5. Lost / Dazed and Confused

  6. Madly in Love

  7. Strong / Powerful / Force

  8. Chaos

  9. Chaos / Anarchy / Confusion / Mayhem

10. Peaceful Chaos

11. Stir the Chaos

12. Order From Chaos


 fā kuáng
Crazy / Mad Scroll

髮狂 is the nicest/coolest way to write “crazy” in Chinese.

There are several other ways to express “insane” or “mentally disturbed,” but they are either clinical terms or very serious afflictions.

髮狂 is not a great or normal selection for a wall scroll. Please only order this if you want this idea for some personal reason.

To put it another way: It's a little crazy to have a “crazy” wall scroll.

Crazy / Mad / Wild

 kuáng
 kyou
 
Crazy / Mad / Wild Scroll

狂 is a single character that means “crazy” in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.

狂 means crazy, unrestrained, lunatic, insane, confused, deranged, wild, or mad.

This can also refer to an extreme enthusiast (like a football fan). But then, it can also refer to a person possessing a mental abnormality.

In some contexts, this can mean conceited (it probably won't be read that way on a wall scroll).

A warning: 狂 is an odd selection for a wall scroll. You should only order this if you plan to bewilder or confuse those who see it. It kind of says something about you, something that most native Asian people will not view in a good light.

 kubittake
Crazy Love Scroll

首っ丈 is a Japanese word that means “deeply in love with,” “madly in love with,” “heads over heels in love with,” or “to be crazy about.”

Anarchy

Lawless / Without Government

 wú zhèng fú
 museifu
Anarchy Scroll

無政府 is a Chinese and Japanese word for anarchy.

This literally reads “without government.”

Lost / Dazed and Confused

 mí
 mei
 
Lost / Dazed and Confused Scroll

迷 is one of those characters that can mean a lot of different things depending on context. When written alone, as a single character on a wall scroll, it opens up the possibilities and allows you to decide what it means to you.

The key definition is “to be lost.” This could be physically or mentally lost. It can be someone lost in their thoughts, lost in an ocean, or just confused about where they are. The reason for the confused state may be due to internal or external reasons.

Here are some entries from various Asian dictionaries...

Chinese: lost, confused, bewilder, crazy about, fan, enthusiast, mystery.

Japanese: lost, astray, perplexed, in doubt, err, illusion.

Korean: lost, bewildered, fascinated, deluded.

Madly in Love

 ài de sǐ qù huó lái
Madly in Love Scroll

爱得死去活来 is a Chinese phrase that means “to be madly in love.”

It almost literally means “Love as if your life depended on it,” or “Love you to death, just to live.”

Strong / Powerful / Force

 qiáng
 kyou
 
Strong / Powerful / Force Scroll

強 is a character that means strong, strength, force, powerful, better, stubborn, and stiff (yes, all of this in one character).

This “strong” has less to do with physical strength and more to do with having a winning attitude, or just having the ability to win at something.

Note that most of the time, this character is pronounced “qiang” but when used with the meaning of stubborn, unyielding, or stiff, it is pronounced “jiang” in Chinese.

Also, sometimes “qiang” is used in modern Chinese to describe people that do crazy things (For example: Bicycling from Beijing to Tibet alone). I sometimes can be found outside my Beijing apartment wearing nothing but shorts and a tee-shirt while eating ice cream during a snow storm, just to hear my neighbors call me “qiang.” Maybe they mean “strong” but perhaps they are using the new meaning of “crazy strong.”

強 can also be a Chinese surname that romanizes as Jiang in the mainland or Chiang if from Taiwan.

強 is a valid Korean Hanja character with the same meaning but is mostly used in compound Korean words.

強 is used in Japanese (though normally in compound words). In Japanese, it has the same meaning but in some contexts can mean “a little more than...” or “a little over [some amount].” Most Japanese would read this as tough, strength, stiff, hard, inflexible, obstinate, or stubborn.

The variant 彊 is sometimes seen in older literature.

 hùn dùn
 konton
Chaos Scroll

混沌 is the Japanese, Korean and Chinese word that means absolute confusion, disorder, and chaos.

This more directly refers to primal chaos or primeval chaos.

When reading something about Chinese mythology, you may find this term used to describe the formless mass before creation.

Chinese scientists sometimes use this word to refer to the nebulous state before the universe was formed or nebulosity.

In some contexts, this could mean “a state of confusion.”

Chaos / Anarchy / Confusion / Mayhem

 hùn luàn
 kon ran
Chaos / Anarchy / Confusion / Mayhem Scroll

The first character means confused, dirty, muddy, or mixed.

The second character means confusion and disorder.

Together, these characters mean chaos and sometimes extended to mean a type of anarchy.

This term is often used in a less-than-literal term to describe anything in disarray. Someone might use this word in a sentence like, “My kitchen is in a state of chaos” or “my life is so chaotic.”


Japanese Chaos Please note that Japanese use an alternate/simplified version of the second character of chaos - it also happens to be the same simplification used in mainland China. Click on the character to the right if you want the Japanese/Simplified version of this two-character chaos calligraphy.

Peaceful Chaos

 píng jìng de hùn luàn
Peaceful Chaos Scroll

平靜的混亂 is NOT a typical Chinese phrase.

It was added to our calligraphy database at the request of a customer. These are two dynamically-opposed ideas, but this is the way to express them together.

Stir the Chaos

 jiǎo dòng hún dùn
Stir the Chaos Scroll

攪動混沌 means “stir the chaos” in Mandarin Chinese.

This was added to our database at the request of a customer.

It is proper grammar and meaning but is not an ancient Chinese phrase or title.

Order From Chaos

 luàn zhōng yǒu xù
Order From Chaos Scroll

亂中有序 more or less means “order from chaos” in Chinese.

This is a little ambiguous, so other ways to translate this include ordered chaos, organized mess, order within chaos, or order within disorder.


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

Title CharactersRomaji (Romanized Japanese)Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Crazy
Mad
髮狂
发狂
fā kuáng / fa1 kuang2 / fa kuang / fakuangfa k`uang / fakuang / fa kuang
Crazy
Mad
Wild

kyou / kyokuáng / kuang2 / kuangk`uang / kuang
Crazy Love首っ丈kubittake
Anarchy無政府
无政府
museifuwú zhèng fú
wu2 zheng4 fu2
wu zheng fu
wuzhengfu
wu cheng fu
wuchengfu
Lost
Dazed and Confused
meimí / mi2 / mi
Madly in Love愛得死去活來
爱得死去活来
ài de sǐ qù huó lái
ai4 de5 si3 qu4 huo2 lai2
ai de si qu huo lai
aidesiquhuolai
ai te ssu ch`ü huo lai
aitessuchühuolai
ai te ssu chü huo lai
Strong
Powerful
Force

kyou / kyoqiáng / qiang2 / qiangch`iang / chiang
Chaos混沌kontonhùn dùn / hun4 dun4 / hun dun / hundunhun tun / huntun
Chaos
Anarchy
Confusion
Mayhem
混亂
混乱
kon ran / konranhùn luàn / hun4 luan4 / hun luan / hunluan
Peaceful Chaos平靜的混亂
平静的混乱
píng jìng de hùn luàn
ping2 jing4 de hun4 luan4
ping jing de hun luan
pingjingdehunluan
p`ing ching te hun luan
pingchingtehunluan
ping ching te hun luan
Stir the Chaos攪動混沌
搅动混沌
jiǎo dòng hún dùn
jiao3 dong4 hun2 dun4
jiao dong hun dun
jiaodonghundun
chiao tung hun tun
chiaotunghuntun
Order From Chaos亂中有序luàn zhōng yǒu xù
luan4 zhong1 you3 xu4
luan zhong you xu
luanzhongyouxu
luan chung yu hsü
luanchungyuhsü
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.


All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.

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.

Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!

When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.


A nice Chinese calligraphy wall scroll

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.

A professional Chinese Calligrapher

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.

Trying to learn Chinese calligrapher - a futile effort

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.

A high-ranked Chinese master calligrapher that I met in Zhongwei

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.