Print by Wing Gig Fong

[Buch]

Can anybody help me translate this symbol?

 

It's an art print by Chinese artist Wing Gig Fong from 1958.

 

 

[Jim]

I looked up the piece and see it has a title taken from the Laozi: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/he-who-obtains-has-little-he-who-scatters-has-much-lao-tzu-6th-century-bc-chinese-moralist

Makes me think it's 少 http://www.zdic.net/z/18/js/5C11.htm, possibly repeated (ETA though really not convinced about that), as the Chinese for the quote is 少则得多则惑.  Not at all sure though.

[茉莉]

惊

means surprise or shock

[Buch]

Thank you Jim - interesting!

 

I received another ID some years ago for the sign: 源

 

I don't know if that makes sense to you guys here?

[Tomsima]

I think this is 慷 (see attached image)

 

It has to either be a 忄or a 片 on the side. This is almost certainly not 少 unless there is some variant I haven't come across.

 

It /might/ be the artists own way of writing a 愿 with the 心 as a 忄, but unlikely.

 

It's definitely not a 惊 as this is 驚 and its 草書 forms almost always stem from the latter

[imron]

4 hours ago, Tomsima said:

I think this is 慷 (see attached image)

I think you're right.

[Buch]

Thank you for your contributions ? 

 

No chance that it's: 源?

[imron]

Look at the title of the piece in English (Generosity).  Then look up the meaning of the word 慷.

 

It's unlikely to be 源.

[Lu]

29 minutes ago, Buch said:

No chance that it's: 源?

In my opinion, no.