 | |  | | ![]() Hi guys.
I bought this from the second hand shop a few days ago and I was wondering if anyone can translate it. here are some images:
Note: Images are almost actual size. It's diameter is roughly 5.3 inchs. | |  | |  |
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| written by Buuks on Aug 27, 2008 14:54 |
| written by Deanfrz on Aug 27, 2008 21:05 |
 | |  | | The back is: Gullible Australians buy anything. | |  | |  |
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 | |  | | ![]() The front really says "Crazy Wong's Pizza House", while the back reads "Warning! Pizza may be hot!" | |  | |  |
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| written by Yayo on Aug 28, 2008 14:03 |
 | |  | | ![]() I'm not very skilled about chinese (not at all actually.. : P) but I can recognize japanese kanji (which partially comes from chinese language) strokes. And those ideograms doesn't seems to be japanese, and probably aren't even chinese.
So, unless they're old/no-longer-used ideograms, they're either a fake or signs of another asian lang I don't know a heck of. : P
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| written by Dumbum on Aug 29, 2008 19:32 |
| | | | ![]() Well I'm pretty sure it's not Chinese because my Kung-fu teacher couldn't read it so... ummm how many other Asian languages are there? | | | | |
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| | | | ![]() Most likely Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese.
Otherwise, you'll have to go check through this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Asia
Quite a bit harder to translate Chinese into English as opposed to German to English from a picture.... Google Translator can't help you. | | | | |
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| | | | ![]() It's definately not Korean, I can tell you that much. And according to wikipedia, Vietnamese uses an adapted version of the Latin alphabet these days, before that they used Chinese characters.
It could be Japanese though. | | | | |
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| written by Speeder on Aug 30, 2008 18:15 |
| | | | ![]() I am sure that this is NOT:
It is not Japanese
It is not modern Chinese
It is not Korean
It may be:
Vietnamese
Ancient or variant chinese (there are more than one chinese language and ideographic alphabet)
Mongol
Something else from a minority (like Ainu, Eskimo, Butanese... I have no idea...)
The object itself looksl ike a chinese coin, but still, I am not much sure of what language is that. | | | | |
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| written by Yayo on Aug 31, 2008 13:12 |
| | | | ![]() I agree with speeder.. It seems to be something related to a minority, but I wonder if minorities like ainu (which is actually someway part of japanese people) did have coins.. ? it sounds a bit unprobable to me..
that mongol option maybe..
boh..
: ?
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| written by Dumbum on Sep 03, 2008 11:13 |
 | |  | | ![]()  | Speeder said: | I am sure that this is NOT:
It is not Japanese
It is not modern Chinese
It is not Korean
It may be:
Vietnamese
Ancient or variant chinese (there are more than one chinese language and ideographic alphabet)
Mongol
Something else from a minority (like Ainu, Eskimo, Butanese... I have no idea...)
The object itself looksl ike a chinese coin, but still, I am not much sure of what language is that. |
Do Eskimo's even write? | |  | |  |
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| written by Kalliope on Sep 05, 2008 03:50 |
| | | | ![]() I concur that it's not Japanese. My first thought was Chinese, but as several people have said it's not (or at least not any modern version), I'm not going to push the issue.
I'll run it by a couple of online acquaintances who are familiar with Chinese (at least one is a HK native), though, just to make sure. | | | | |
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| written by Kalliope on Sep 05, 2008 04:05 |
| | | | ![]() Well okay, here is what we know.
It's not Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese (because they don't use chinese characters anymore), and it might not be Chinese.
I really think it's some kind of chinese, probably an older version.
Also, it isn't Mongolian, Wikipedia says they use Cyrillic. Inuit writing doesn't look anything like that. And Dzongkha (the language of Bhutan) looks kinda Cyrillic-y. Thank you wikipedia, because I've never seen any of those languages before.
Note, I could be horribly wrong, but looking at them it doesn't look the same. | | | | |
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