New Members HuangDeez Posted June 10, 2014 at 02:36 AM New Members Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 at 02:36 AM I tried plugging the character on the left that appears next to every word into Pleco, but I had no luck in finding a translation. I'm starting to think it's either a combination of two characters or not a character at all. Please help me translate the words on this coat! 谢谢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted June 10, 2014 at 08:16 AM Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 at 08:16 AM Looks like Japanese to me, not Chinese. The radical I cannot type here, as it turns out, but it's a variant of 鱼, see here. This is in all likelihood a list of types of fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamille Posted June 10, 2014 at 08:21 AM Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 at 08:21 AM Yeah the radical is always the same but all I can say about it is that it's not the communist simplified version of 魚 (which means fish). Might be the Japanese simplification, indeed. I wouldn't say that it's a list of fish though. It looks more to me that it's a list of characters classified depending on their radical : [鯤、鯁、鰆 etc] You can find such a list for the character 魚 (in Chinese) here: http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%AD%9A (you'll find yourself unable to find some characters like the fourth from the top left corner, because they're not Chinese... but they might be Japanese, as said before by Lu). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneEye Posted June 10, 2014 at 09:15 AM Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 at 09:15 AM It's not the official Japanese simplification, but a common historical variant of 魚. It probably is Japanese, though. Just change the 大 to 灬 and you'll find the characters you're looking for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted June 10, 2014 at 10:08 AM Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 at 10:08 AM It's not the official Japanese simplification, but the way the strokes are painted looks Japanese to me. Kamille could be right that it's not necessarily all fish, and if you can't find some of the characters, it's possible that they are non-standard variants as well. In which case I recommend the dictionary I linked to, it's very good for strange & difficult characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members HuangDeez Posted June 10, 2014 at 02:41 PM Author New Members Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 at 02:41 PM Great! Thanks for your help everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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