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Need a Kanji Translated? Just ask!
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- 15 Mar 2002
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Do you know a good French forum? My friend has a Gibson guitar with "Les Paul" on it and we're trying to figure out what it means.
zachbike
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I wasn't trying to be insulting. I literally know nothing about kanji, and just received the bike as a gift. I'm really grateful for the help.
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You weren't at all. I was just amusing myself.
zachbike
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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It wasn't sarcasm
Examples of Sarcasm
and you weren't the butt of the joke. Unknot your knickers, Nellie. If you're hanging around waiting for an apology you're wasting your time; there won't be one.
zachbike
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My brother-in law spent many months in Japan, and knows Japanese. He told me they have a saying there:
太陽に近すぎるワックス翼を飛ぶことはありません
It means do not get too confident or else you will get arrogant and lose everything.
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I'm very in awe of your brother-in-law who spent many months in Japan and know Japanese. Why didn't you ask him about the bike? (My brothers-in-law have been in Japan over half a century....each. My dog beat your dog!).
Most Japanese sayings aren't rip-offs of the ancient Greek story of Daedalus and Icarus and don't have such crap grammar....
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zachbike
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My brother in-law does not know kanji.
I don't know if you have been to Japan before (maybe your brothers in law would know this) but they have a "fluid style" of grammar there. So for example, what I said earlier was "do not fly too close to the sun with wax wings." There are many ways to translate the saying, so both you and my brother-in law are correct.
And to answer your previous question: I am a guitarist, and I know that "Les Paul" is actually the guy that designed the guitar! There is no need to look it up, because it is just the guy.
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Unfortunately, the Japanese translation 太陽に近すぎるワックス翼を飛ぶことはありません is grammatically wrong (the choice of a particle, the way to create a compound word, etc.), but apart from this, I have to give a warning as a moderator that you both are going to go off-topic.
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But remarkably good for a "Japanese saying" which came from Google Translate. That's a very large improvement from what it has turned out in the past.
I found this image on Google and would like to know what it means.
I've tried translating it myself by drawing it in google translate and web searching every part separate but i don't know anything about the grammar so i might just be totally wrong.
what i found out already:
金 = Gold
星 = Star
ウ = U
can't find this one
ソ = So
ド = Do
Now i'm guessing some of the meaning changes when you put them together but I wouldn't know which ones and what their combined meaning would be. then There's probably the issue of Japanese grammar not being the same as my own languages grammar.
I've tried translating it myself by drawing it in google translate and web searching every part separate but i don't know anything about the grammar so i might just be totally wrong.
what i found out already:
金 = Gold
星 = Star
ウ = U
can't find this one
ソ = So
ド = Do
Now i'm guessing some of the meaning changes when you put them together but I wouldn't know which ones and what their combined meaning would be. then There's probably the issue of Japanese grammar not being the same as my own languages grammar.
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I found this image on Google and would like to know what it means.
I've tried translating it myself by drawing it in google translate and web searching every part separate but i don't know anything about the grammar so i might just be totally wrong.
what i found out already:
金 = Gold
星 = Star
ウ = U
can't find this one
ソ = So
ド = Do
Now i'm guessing some of the meaning changes when you put them together but I wouldn't know which ones and what their combined meaning would be. then There's probably the issue of Japanese grammar not being the same as my own languages grammar.
More a problem of misreading katakana.
That says ハウンド (ha u n do) "hound"
The "Gold Star" part may be "gold star" or it may refer to the planet Venus.
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yeah i found Venus when i combined the first 2 kanji in google translate but that's Google translate you know. Thanks for the quick reply.
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Found a pair of earrings recently that I'm having trouble finding a translation for. Tried Google Translate and Google Goggles, but no luck.
The earring on the left is clearly broken in two places...so although they were originally identical, the one on the right is the complete character.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The earring on the left is clearly broken in two places...so although they were originally identical, the one on the right is the complete character.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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寿
kotobuki
congratulation, felicitation, celebration, longevity or like that
kotobuki
congratulation, felicitation, celebration, longevity or like that
lizabean
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No wonder I couldn't find it, I wasn't even handwriting it correctly.
I wonder if the reason someone gave them up is because the one got broken...seems like a sign of bad luck.
Thank you for the fast response!
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It's not Japanese. It's Chinese.
It means "I miss you."
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The second and fourth are easily recognizable as 次 and 作 but the first and third are too much for me. If someone told me they were just mimicry of kanji and the whole thing was fake I would have trouble arguing with them.
Where did you get it? Was there a box? Are there any other markings?
kylerichjohn
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Unfortunately there wasn't a box. It purchased from an estate who's owner was from Japan. That is all I know.
So you think that this is just some sort of knock off?
Are these even Japanese characters? Could they be Chinese?
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Not necessarily.
They are both.
The trouble I'm having is that the two characters which aren't instantly recognizable are such a mixed-up jumble that I can't even make a good guess at what they are. But I'm no expert on this so don't go on my say so.
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Most likely this one.
藤次郎作
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