Are there any characters here that match classical Chinese characters?

[RKeller]

 

I would like to find out if any of these characters are a match with any classical Chinese characters and if so how many? Thanks.

[muyongshi]

There are none that I recognize or even really come close.

What document is this and where did it come from? Some background on it and your reasons for asking would be helpful (and generally interesting).

[RKeller]

Thank you Muyongshi. The document has nothing to do with Chinese. But Chinese has so many characters that the likelihood of a few random matches might have been a possibility. Arguments about the document's validity have been made both for and against based upon some percentage of the characters matching actual known character sets. One of those arguments had to do with one character set known as Latin Shorthand. There is a 60% match. But some argued that it wasn't significant because Latin Shorthand contains so many characters that some accidental similarities were to be expected. Well Chinese contains at least an order of magnitude more characters than Latin Shorthand so there ought to be more matches with Chinese by this logic. But nothing, zip, apparently.

[renzhe]

But Chinese has so many characters that the likelihood of a few random matches might have been a possibility.

No, not really. With the exception of trivial characters like 一,二,三,十,人,大,口, etc., Chinese characters tend to be rather complex and follow standardised rules about how they are constructed.

The chance of 是 or 餐 popping up by accident is very slim. Latin shorthand is itself a simplification, so it's more likely that they will match.

[imron]

so there ought to be more matches with Chinese by this logic. But nothing, zip, apparently.

If you are looking at it like that, there are some “matches". I can spot 一, 十, 了 and 艹 (but this is not really a standalone character in Chinese).  Obviously however they are not really "Chinese characters", they are just squiggles that look like an approximation of those characters.  You can see that the ones it matches are all quite simple characters with only 1-3 strokes.

 

Like Renzhe said, the chance of a more complicated character showing up is basically zero.

[Shelley]

I was looking at the american science desk referance book for another reason and as I flipped through the book I saw some symbols that looked a bit like some of the symbols shown on your pic. The symbols I saw were for planets astrological and also astronomy symbols.

 

I am not saying they are these if any but I think you should look further afield as there is a world of symbols in a huge variety of fields.