Material Identification Help Please

[Mary Kathryn]

Or worse yet, "Sucky sucky five dolla, me love you long time!"

[skookum hime]

Okay, I'm going to take a stab at translating this, but understand that (1) it's probably not real Chinese and (2) Chinese isn't my first, second, third or even fourteenth language. I translated this with radical lookup and some of them--most of them in fact--weren't exact matches, but the closest I could get, allowing for the artistic license of the calligrapher.

Since Chinese chop stamps are stylized signatures, I can't even begin to translate the red boxed character, so I won't. However, here is the key for the black characters:



And here are my poor translations:

1. I THINK this one is "yue", moon or month.
2. I'm almost sure this one is "ming", bright.
3. Maybe "hui", meeting, or maybe party...hard to tell, really
4. I'm thinking this is "ji", good luck.
5. Could be "ke", must not
6. It's either a dressed-up "shi", ten, or it COULD be "ji", soup, but I don't think so.

So what I'm getting from this is "The moon is bright, let's have a party for good luck! But let's not invite (more than) ten people." Or maybe "This month is the Shining Meeting of Luck, but let's not have soup."

Or something.

Symbol 6 looks like peace. and I know 1 isn't moon, cause >.> thats my fave symbol.
Really nothing matches anything, it may all be jibberish cause it looked cool.

[absynthe1972]

As I said over at JS most of the stuff like this is gibberish and related to Engrish. It was picked more for it's looks than the designer understanding what they're using. It might be possible to pick out a word or two.

ROFL! I'm not too fond of Engrish. If the symbol is going to be on something, then it should be correct and properly used.

[absynthe1972]

Okay, I'm going to take a stab at translating this, but understand that (1) it's probably not real Chinese and (2) Chinese isn't my first, second, third or even fourteenth language. I translated this with radical lookup and some of them--most of them in fact--weren't exact matches, but the closest I could get, allowing for the artistic license of the calligrapher.

Since Chinese chop stamps are stylized signatures, I can't even begin to translate the red boxed character, so I won't. However, here is the key for the black characters:



And here are my poor translations:

1. I THINK this one is "yue", moon or month.
2. I'm almost sure this one is "ming", bright.
3. Maybe "hui", meeting, or maybe party...hard to tell, really
4. I'm thinking this is "ji", good luck.
5. Could be "ke", must not
6. It's either a dressed-up "shi", ten, or it COULD be "ji", soup, but I don't think so.

So what I'm getting from this is "The moon is bright, let's have a party for good luck! But let's not invite (more than) ten people." Or maybe "This month is the Shining Meeting of Luck, but let's not have soup."

Or something.

BRILLIANT! Totally awesome! You've done a bit of a better search than I did. I Googled and even used my Chinese character set on the iMac and couldn't figure this out. Thank you! Thank you!

[absynthe1972]

Or worse yet, "Sucky sucky five dolla, me love you long time!"

*giggles* *guffaws* That's what my husband was saying, too. *giggles*