My wife went to a Hong Kong market and there was a guy making stamp kits for the tourists. He would ask for a name and year of birth. Then he would select a stamper thingy (mine was a Dragon) and then carve Chinese characters into the top. When I press the stamp into ink and transfer it onto a page, it looks like this:
http://i60.tinypic.com/289jsw5.jpg
Now, I am asking the LR. What do these Chinese characters say?
@Kid
“Moo shu pork with special rice.”
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White Hooker -$200
Be glad it wasn’t a tattoo.
I know squat about chinese characters, but you could try uploading the image you posted to a free Optical Character Reader http://www.newocr.com/ . Then paste it into a translator and see if the image is clear enough for that to work.
It is either “soup” or “courage”
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“Made in America”
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Hi Jim, thanks for the suggestion - tried it and received Error, text cannot be identified.
Cheers,
@Kid
It was a long shot, I wish the characters were japanese, then I could help.
I believe it is supposed to be
乐迪
Not sure how to post Chinese characters on Slowtwitch, but it means
Melody
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Try this link for the unicode
OK I plugged the unicodes into graphemico.com and it shows:
4E50: happy, glad, enjoyable, music
8FEA: enlighten, advance, progress
Does this look right?
@Kid
The characters together mean Melody
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Very interesting- thanks.
I did have a Tawainese friend of mine take a look. He couldn’t be sure but thought it said ‘lucky’.
@Kid
It’s an ancient proverb:
When neighbor cat has kittens, buffet is laden.
I thought it meant “can’t believe tourists actually buy this”
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