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 One of the translators on the translator subreddit suggested that the characters on the Terryscope https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/05/terryscope-translated-from-chinese-to.html   could just as well be Japanese Kanji characters.  So I tried Kanji and got this: did this preview 21st century people being tattooed with language characters they don't understand ? They are all basically the same except for Akira which means discernment in English rather than bright as Ming does in Chinese.  OTOH, the Google translator (I usually use the Bing translator) says that Akira means Ming in English :)   Basically they were just decorative characters ! Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

Good for us but why didn't the owner put the Terryscope together ? Did most of the translation by using a very nice site:   https://learnchineseez.com   I was able to figure out all of the characters except for the top flap, I had missed it  while scanning the character tables.  The character is Ming which is Bright in English: the original is on the right in red This was revealed to me via the subreddit: translator, https://reddit.com/r/translator/new/  a very nice person did the translation in just a few hours !  Amazing ! As I found out on my starting attempt:   https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-big-but-fun-waste-of-time.html    machine translation is kinda hit and miss.  I did find a slightly better scan on the Hakes auction site but it still didn't seem to work with the Yandex translator.  Also as is true with what we used to called script versus printing in English, a similar difference exists between hand written calligra...