RCH Posted December 12, 2014 at 06:58 PM Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 at 06:58 PM Can anyone translate these characters written on an old envelope? I'm not positive it's Hanzi. The envelope came out of the estate of an elderly Japanese-American woman in San Francisco. However, the envelope contains gold dust, and gold prospecting was much more common amongst Chinese-Americans than Japanese-Americans in the western US, so the characters could've been written as part of either language. Any help would be appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest realmayo Posted December 12, 2014 at 08:45 PM Report Share Posted December 12, 2014 at 08:45 PM Left: 金+银粉 gold + silver powder Right: 金粉,银粉 gold powder, silver powder These are Chinese characters. But Japanese uses lots of Chinese characters & maybe this makes sense in Japanese too -- but I don't know any Japanese so I can't say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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