Writing on a chinese tea cup

[jekarl]

Hi folks, I guess I'd like to give someone some practice. I was looking at buying this tea cup, but the thought came to me that I'd rather not have some ridiculous phrase screaming at me every time I drink out of the cup. Could someone help me out?

Thanks!

[Guest Pipas]

Are you kidding? The picture is too small! I can see only 陶 (meaning: china)

[skylee]

clicking on the picture enlarges it. but still i can only see the two bigger characters on the right, which is 陶然, meaning happy, relaxed, content.

[jekarl]

Well, if the characters mean happy and china, I'm guessing it's probably not something I would be upset with having on my cup? haha I'd still like to know what it says if someone could possibly make it out... Just for dinner conversation, ya know.

Thanks guys for what you've told me so far!

[Daan]

It's going to be pretty much impossible for anyone here to read that, since the characters are just too small. If you could post a bigger picture, we could definitely help you translate them

[Guest Pipas]

oh, jekarl, the characters don't mean happy and china. A single Chinese character's meaning is like a tag cloud. Most Chinese words consist of two-three characters, and these unique combinations specify the meaning of the whole word in each case.

So, 陶然 means "happy, relaxed, content" as skylee told you.