Can anyone read any of this? (Might be Chinese)

[ICRS]

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery...s/images/or14844f3.jpg

 

[ICRS]

Any clues to as what language this is?

 

[dighn]

yeah I'm pretty sure that's Chinese. the characters are too small to read comfortably

 

[wiredspider]

I see one, two, ten, and big in Chinese. That is the extent of my Chinese...lol

 

[SOSTrooper]

It's Chinese, and it's not a poem. It reads like some sort of paragraph out of a book or longer passage. Pic is too small to read the more complex characters though.

I take some of that back. The right hand side of the page could be a poem, but the left hand side is definitely not a poem, rather it could be an explanation of it.

 

[Pepsei]

it's chinese. i would be able to read it if you rescan it.

 

[JimRaynor]

ummm that is JAPANESE. even where there are more chinese characters on the right side, they are mixed in with japanese suggesting they are just kanji.

 

[Pepsei]

are you serious? i see no japanese... the last column (left) talked about ming dynasty.

 

[andylawcc]

urg, it's all chinese. on the right is poem, and the on the left talks about history of something...

 

[ICRS]

What about this one.

http://link.imgshare.us/92j17f


This might be written using dead characters.

 

[JimRaynor]

Dude, it's Japanese. IF you know Chinese, what you are recognizing is kanji. Which is incorporated into written Japanese.

 

[andylawcc]

again, that's chinese too, and it is still Tradition Chinese written in an Italized way.

 

[JimRaynor]

THAT is chinese.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: JimRaynor
Dude, it's Japanese. IF you know Chinese, what you are recognizing is kanji. Which is incorporated into written Japanese.

um, in a way, you can be correct, but no japanese is written completely in Kanji, there must be some Hiragana.

 

[JimRaynor]

Thanks for agreeing with me!

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: JimRaynor
Thanks for agreeing with me!

um, not really

 

[JimRaynor]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: JimRaynor
Dude, it's Japanese. IF you know Chinese, what you are recognizing is kanji. Which is incorporated into written Japanese.

um, in a way, you can be correct, but no japanese is written completely in Kanji, there must be some Hiragana.

Please tell me how you are not saying exactly what I said.

 

[JimRaynor]

Are you still trying to tell me that this is CHINESE text?

 

[ICRS]

I am confused are these suppose to read up and down or left and right.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: JimRaynor
Are you still trying to tell me that this is CHINESE text?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji

Kanji (??) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana

Chinese characters first came to Japan on articles imported from China.

Those are Chinese text, the Japanese just happen to used them too.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: ICRS
I am confused are these suppose to read up and down or left and right.

the older ones starts from the Top Right, then read up to down, right to left. (vertically aligned, in books, manuscript, poems)

newer ones often starts from Top Left, then left to right, up to down. (horizontally aligned, in newspaper, magazines)

 

[JimRaynor]

It's a Japanese text. It's japanese cause they are used together. You don't even seem to know what you are debating.

Now you are saying there is Japanese there too.

 

[Pepsei]

you read up and down starting from left to right. and the reason it is in chinese is because it is using traditional characters.. if it was japanese, some of the kanji would be simplified.

 

[JimRaynor]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
urg, it's all chinese. on the right is poem, and the on the left talks about history of something...

Those are Chinese text, the Japanese just happen to used them too.

Backpedal more please.

 

[Baked]

From right to left and top down. And no there's no such thing as italicized Chinese, it's called calligraphy.

Originally posted by: JimRaynor
Dude, it's Japanese. IF you know Chinese, what you are recognizing is kanji. Which is incorporated into written Japanese.

You do realize Kanji literally means Chinese characters right? In Korea, the term is Hanja. Are you gonna tell me that's Japanese too? :roll: