simple task (though not for me)

[joshuason07]

I'm a graphic production artist working on a job that requires me to recreate an area of chinese (i believe) writing but it's too rasterized (messy) to manually recreate it. can anyone (pretty please) just type this in the appropriate characters so i can copy it into the file i'm working on? or direct me towards where i might be able to get help with this?

 

 

thank you!

-josh

[Publius]

輸入者

丸紅株式会社

東京都中央区日本橋二丁目７番１号

 

It's Japanese by the way.

Importer

Marubeni Corporation

7-1, Nihonbashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo (according to its official website)

[joshuason07]

I was wondering if that was the case. the customer said it was Chinese but the characters looked a little too "blocky" for that to be true . either way, I greatly appreciate your help!

[imron]

It's Japanese but it's entirely in Kanji which is the Japanese name for Chinese characters, so technically it is in Chinese also.

[889]

" . . . so technically it is in Chinese also."

 

Well, technically it's not in Chinese also: 株式会社 is not how you'd express the concept of "corporation" in Chinese. More like French and English: both using roman letters.

[imron]

5 hours ago, 889 said:

株式会社 is not how you'd express the concept of "corporation" in Chinese

Likewise with 输入者, but they are still all Chinese characters.

[dwq]

Imron I think you are mixing up the concepts.  Using 889's example, writing text in roman letters doesn't automatically make the text English, similarly writing Japanese text in Chinese characters doesn't turn the language of the text into Chinese.

 

[somethingfunny]

He did say "technically", let's not get upset about this.  A Chinese person with no knowledge of Japanese would be able to understand what it meant, so technically it's in Chinese.

[imron]

47 minutes ago, dwq said:

Imron I think you are mixing up the concepts.

I'm not mixing up concepts.  I'm not saying it's Chinese, I'm saying it's Chinese characters, which it is.

 

I don't know any Japanese and yet I can read that image basically without any problems because it's written entirely in Kanji (Chinese characters).

[Publius]

Well, actually there is a difference. If it's Japanese, a graphic designer should use a Japanese font.

I don't need to remind everyone although the character (or Unicode codepoint) is the same, the glyph is different, right?

http://www.zdic.net/z/21/zy/7D05.htm

[dwq]

1 hour ago, imron said:

I'm not saying it's Chinese, I'm saying it's Chinese characters

I wouldn't have objected if you said "in Chinese characters".  But you said

 

20 hours ago, imron said:

so technically it is in Chinese also.

and I thought 'Chinese' here refers to the language (like "English" in "in English", "French" in "in French" and not like "roman" in "in roman letters").

 

[imron]

Read the sentence fragment directly before that, the context is that I'm talking about the text using Chinese characters which is the technicality that makes it 'Chinese' 

[dwq]

1 hour ago, imron said:

Read the sentence fragment directly before that, the context is that I'm talking about the text using Chinese characters which is the technicality that makes it 'Chinese' 

The last 'Chinese' here still sounds like you are referring to the language, not the script.

 

I can accept that there is some ambiguity, though I still think what you wrote did not accurately convey what you said you meant. Also when you use a word like 'technically' which means "According to the facts or exact meaning of something; strictly." you make people less forgiving about ambiguity.

 

[imron]

3 minutes ago, dwq said:

Also when you use a word like 'technically' which means "According to the facts or exact meaning of something; strictly."

Strictly speaking, the characters in the image are 漢字.

[dwq]

Let's leave it at that