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Khandro | 13:48 Mon 23rd Aug 2021 | Arts & Literature
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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?
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The ‘T’ with a flick on the right could mean down/below or next.
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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 ?
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.
Maybe I should have said that he doesn't know the language but he is good with Uncle Google
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.
if you happened to be looking at it upside down, the second one appears to be deckchair...
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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 !
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