Detective need with Chinese characters

[Me123]

Please

accept my apology that the image is so poor. However can you see a block of four Chinese (?) characters and what might they translate as please. Part of a train sign. This is not an idle enquiry, it is quite important. Tyhank you if you can help me today. Cheers.

[Daan]

Chinese characters? Where? That looks more like a photograph of some faraway galaxy shot by the Hubble Space Telescope.

[Me123]

LOL I am actually painting one as we speak - you're not a psychic are you??? !

It is hard to see the characters unless you tilt your monitor or have an art level one.

I have one full and one part translation but need a second full one to use.

Very important matter but I appreciate if you cannot make it out and thank you for your reply.eone else can.

Hopefully someone else can.

[Daan]

Hmm. I think the character (if it is one) in the upper right-hand corner could be 主. But my monitor isn't quite good enough to allow me to make out any of the others. In fact, while it could be 主, it could also be a spaceship. ;)

[Me123]

Yes true those spaceship get around.

Not wanting to lead you but if the viewers left translated as 'time' or similar what would you spaceship read as? I know I know - tricky but hey for a psychic should be a breeze.

[renzhe]

Sorry, but with this picture, anything anybody says is going to be a wild guess. It's impossible to read.

[Me123]

Thanks renzhe. I appreciate the difficulty especially if the viewer is looking with a 'normal' monitor - it's more obvious on an art monitor. However, I remain hopeful that someone here will take the time to make a stab. Cheers

[roddy]

Take a photo of your art monitor then . . .

[jbradfor]

What is an art monitor?

[889]

It's an expensive monitor that reproduces colors with great accuracy and consistency. Often used by people preparing things for publication, where accurate and consistent color matching is important. Also a nice toy that gives you some bragging rights, like a pro-level digital camera.

[c_redman]

Does an art monitor improve anything that a red filter in Photoshop wouldn't?

Is the bottom left 畏 (wèi - fear, respect)? Two dots in the upper left is rather rare in a character. Could the two top ones be an erroneously split 谜 (mí - riddle, mystery)?

So, where was this train anyway? Will telling us compromise your covert status?

[Hofmann]

And what makes you think all of us don't have art monitors?

It's illegible.

[Daan]

You said you had one complete translation - care to share it with us? I honestly can't believe anyone would be able to read that, whether they have an "art monitor" or not.

[Me123]

Thank you all for your consideration and suggestions. And please forgive me if I unintentional gave offense regarding art monitors. I did not mean it. Unless one was in that field there would be no need to have one. Anyway, I will close this enquiry and thank you again.

[aristotle1990]

Can you use your art monitor to

it?

[adrianlondon]

Is it one of those Rorschach tests?

[roddy]

This is not an idle enquiry

I think it might be.

[Me123]

Admin, you are mistaken. It was very legitimate. I did receive input from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Beijing who know of me and understood I would not trouble anyone with idle chatter. I appreciate eveyones assistance and as I said the matter is now resolved and closed.

[renzhe]

So what was it?

[c_redman]

She posted this plus a few other pictures to another forum. Because the picture posted here was cropped, it doesn't reveal that because there is so much distortion, the "Chinese characters" are everywhere in the picture. It's like looking for meaning in TV static.

... who know of me and understood I would not trouble anyone with idle chatter.

They don't know you at all, then :rolleyes: