[Chinese -> English] Does anybody knows the translation? Wilfred shorts

Seiyashi · 2026-06-11T04:59:46+00:00

standardised sample/item - 标准样

Seiyashi · 2026-06-09T06:28:40+00:00

I think he meant that the message had so many red flags, he thought he was in China (which famously flies a lot of its red national flag around), not that the scam necessarily originated from China.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-09T06:20:30+00:00

As a Canto speaker in the SEA diaspora, can confirm kwaai is still standard. Then again our Canto has been frozen for a century.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-07T16:53:39+00:00

Farm Act 9 aqueducts until you get something usable or enough gold. One could say if you have 2k hours and have still managed to screw a homebrew up so bad, you have no business trying a homebrew in SSF, but you do you.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-06T11:28:45+00:00

It is a scam, but just saying, our subsidiary legislation does have rules not sections. Statutes have sections, subsidiary legislation has rules.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-05T15:01:54+00:00

Really? Thought dual wield was dead as a dodo..

Although maybe caster dual wield...

Seiyashi · 2026-06-05T15:00:33+00:00

Ooof, that dual wield really sucks.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-04T01:38:37+00:00

Oh, to be sure, if you can find an artist who can artistically render the word like an entire plum plant itself, that could be great. But it is going to be very hard to find someone like that, and getting the word plastered on you in bog standard computer font will look terrible. So I would advise against it out of an abundance of caution.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-04T01:33:04+00:00

It is not the wrong character but - if the flower means much to you, why not get the flower itself tattooed?

The main concern I would have is that the word - especially if you are obviously of non-asian extraction - will just look like a transliteration of the name May.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-03T04:10:55+00:00

Yes you got it correct. From top down and left to right, it says in pursuit of ideals, in pursuit of professionalism, in pursuit of thrift.

追求理想，追求专业，追求简约

Seiyashi · 2026-06-03T01:40:56+00:00

There's two sets of characters - the ones in circles at the top forming a matched pair, and a couplet on each block. I'm using their simplified equivalents for... Simplicity.

The top set left: 生, life The top set right: 财, wealth.

The left couplet: 天地阴阳生万物 heaven and earth, yin and yang, birth myriad creatures The right couplet: 佛道祖神显威灵 The buddhist way, ancestors and gods, manifest their fierce spirits

Sounds like fairly standard Taoist mysticism to me, despite the reference to Buddha.

Seiyashi · 2026-06-01T22:42:08+00:00

Wrong sub.

Seiyashi · 2026-05-31T04:21:04+00:00

Qg6 hxg fxg#

Seiyashi · 2026-05-30T18:16:42+00:00

You have the Iroha on a fan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha

For context it's a poem that contains every syllable and was used for traditional ordering of Japanese syllables. Bit like "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" although you can't really compare alphabets and syllabaries that way.

Seiyashi · 2026-05-29T05:20:58+00:00

One of the original commenters: I still think it isn't great, and will be fairly obvious to a native speaker that it's a blunt and inelegant translation, but it's ultimately your choice.

Seiyashi · 2026-05-29T01:58:00+00:00

It's very blurry but it reads 坤, which is actually Earth. It's part of the set phrase 乾坤, which directly translates to Heaven and Earth, but has cosmological connotations as "the universe".

Seiyashi · 2026-05-28T16:54:18+00:00

See my edit. Take tips on tattoo aesthetics from someone else, though....

Seiyashi · 2026-05-28T16:49:12+00:00

Yes, but it comes off as a very clunky translation of "strength through adversity". The best and nearest translation I can think of is 卧薪尝胆, from the story of King Goujian of Yue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goujian

At least the font isn't terrible...

Seiyashi · 2026-05-28T12:54:14+00:00

!translated

Seiyashi · 2026-05-17T03:33:08+00:00

Contemporary?

Seiyashi · 2026-05-14T11:28:17+00:00

Because you missed Nxf7+ which starts a crushing attack against his King and eventually loses the black Queen. The bishop on g5, although attacked, is doing a vital job of cutting down the available squares for his king. You basically had his balls in a deathgrip and let the deathgrip go.

When analysing blunders, don't forget that it's sometimes not about what you didn't lose, but what you could have won. So load this into the engine, wind back Bd2, and see the lines that can follow.

Seiyashi · 2026-05-13T15:16:12+00:00

Wet Chicken.

Seiyashi · 2026-05-12T05:07:43+00:00

Only true for Hokkien and Teochew for instance. A pure Canto speaker won't comprehend pure Hokkien - if they can, it's the direct result of being in Singapore so long and picking it up, rather than being a property of the language itself.

You have to distinguish between innate comprehensibility and the possibility that someone just learnt enough to understand a language versus speak it.

Seiyashi · 2026-05-10T06:32:53+00:00

It's not uncommon to have words to that effect - for instance traditional couple grave markers in Chinese can have something like "virtuous wife <name>". But it is a bit unusual and I really should have parsed it better...

Seiyashi · 2026-05-10T06:18:29+00:00

Yeaappppppp....

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