Can Anyone Read Chinese?

[Khandro]

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I have been looking at translations of some ancient Chinese texts & I see these two characters keep reoccurring in the originals. Does anyone know what they represent please?

[Zacs-Master]

The ‘T’ with a flick on the right could mean down/below or next.

[Khandro]

I'm not sure how Chinese is translated at all. There isn't a literal translation of what I'm seeing, but a commentary outlining an interpretation of the meaning.

I can see how it is easy to find a Chinese character for any given word written in Latin script, but how on earth can you do it the other way round without an alphabet of some kind ?

[wolf63]

Chris/Beunchico found some way of translating something for me that was in Russian. He might be on later unless the cats are sleeping on his computer.

[wolf63]

Maybe I should have said that he doesn't know the language but he is good with Uncle Google

[Buenchico]

This is the online OCR service that Wolf63 has referred to above:
https://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-chinese-traditional-ocr

I use it to extract text in foreign languages, which can then be entered into Google Translate.

[jno]

if you happened to be looking at it upside down, the second one appears to be deckchair...

[Khandro]

Thank you Chris; elsewhere I read that to write the word MAN takes us 10 strokes (try it) but in Chinese - & it's the only word I know- it is an inverted V with a horizontal stroke just below the apex ... 3 strokes !

[SteveD]

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