New Members sumnerfit Posted February 12, 2011 at 04:03 AM New Members Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 at 04:03 AM I would like to know if I am looking at Chinese characters, the top right character really has me perplexed. Thanks in advance to anyone with the time to respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted February 13, 2011 at 02:37 PM Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 at 02:37 PM Some are definitely Chinese characters, some I've never seen before. Could this be the result of picking the wrong type of character decoding for a text in some non-Latin script? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymoose Posted February 13, 2011 at 04:25 PM Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 at 04:25 PM Isn't the top right character just 亞? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugubert Posted February 13, 2011 at 04:32 PM Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 at 04:32 PM The character made up of 也母 was difficult, but the explanation Unicode Han Character '(Cant.) feminine suffix' (U+4E78) (jyutping naa2, Yale na2) suggests that all the text is Cantonese. The top right one was much easier: 亚 yà in Simplified. The phonetic of mian3 眄 took some time. Seems to be mian3 ‘hidden’, Cant. Min5. (Unihan U+4E0F). And then there is the turtle (亀 = 龟). Probably more difficult ones, but I rest here voting for Cantonese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted February 13, 2011 at 04:49 PM Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 at 04:49 PM It's a combination of simplified and traditional Chinese characters, some of which are extremely rare, and some single strokes usually not used as characters. I'm not sure about some characters -- they use standard parts, but I've never seen them. Very odd combination. Some of the characters are common, some are rare. I really don't know if this is some dialect, or really an encoding problem -- bad encoding usually results in ONLY obscure characters. It's not standard written Chinese, that much is sure. Could it possibly be Chữ_Nôm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hofmann Posted February 13, 2011 at 06:22 PM Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 at 06:22 PM LOL...They are Chinese characters and it's a bunch of nonsense. And it isn't Cantonese or Chu Nom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members sumnerfit Posted February 13, 2011 at 07:50 PM Author New Members Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 at 07:50 PM Nonsense doesn't surprise me. It's a puzzle and I have a feeling it needs encoding (probably using unicode) which will then give more information. Thanks very much for your help. It's the start I need. I'll post the answer if I can get it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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