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babliku
July 24, 2007, 09:02 AM posted in General Discussion
Hi everyone, just wanted to share something that you might find interesting. When I was in secondary school, one day a classmate of mine got bored, and he showed that scribbly thing above to me. I was like, "What in the world is that? IM [weird thingy] JOKOH."
I did think for a while but I gave up in the end. turns out that if you tilt your head to the right (or if you rotate the picture 90 degrees counter-clockwise), you'd see my (chinese) name. haha. funny thing is when I showed it to my chinese tuition teacher, she saw it almost instantly.
Ah anyway, not too sure how relevant it is, but I thought it was quite funny. I hope you can figure the words out, even though it's not a common name like 小明 or 大白. I'm not revealing it coz I'm hoping it can be seen as some kind of 字谜 haha.
bazza
July 26, 2007, 08:59 AMAt least I'll always remember that character now. ;)
tianfeng
July 24, 2007, 01:03 PMI didn't see it. Here I am in the library flipping my computer on its side trying to get what it is. Damn you john.
bazza
July 24, 2007, 01:19 PMI can only get one of the characters. -------- Spoiler -------- -------- 绅
tianfeng
July 24, 2007, 01:23 PMyea got that one too. the one that looks like an h in the lower left of the first character is throwing me.
bazza
July 24, 2007, 03:55 PMAh, is it in fact three characters and not two? ---- spoiler ---- ---- 壴加绅
babliku
July 25, 2007, 06:37 AMhaha you have it already! except that it's two characters. I don't even have that first word (of your solution) in my dictionary. Actually if you look it up in a dictionary you'll find that there aren't many words with 士字头 (mine has about 25 including traditional characters), so the first character isn't that hard to find. Boo.. so much for 猜字谜 .
bazza
July 25, 2007, 07:00 AMIs it one of these? http://www.cojak.org/index.php?function=radical&kRadicalID=33
babliku
July 25, 2007, 07:49 AMnope, 'fraid not. You should get a dictionary, my friend. My 现代汉语词典 has never failed me.
John
July 25, 2007, 08:23 AMtianfeng, If it makes you feel any better, it took me a few minutes to get it... I identified the 绅 right away, then came the 壴, but I realized it was probably part of a larger character, and then came the epiphany. (That character is pretty common in foreigners' names.) MUAHAHA!
babliku
July 24, 2007, 11:52 AMhaha damn. Was is that easy? They're not very common characters, so I was thinking maybe some people won't know it. As I said, that's my real name. I don't have an 'English' name, though my cousins do call me Jason. Don't like it though. The trouble with this thingy is that most Chinese characters can't be written in alphabets like that, so in a way my name is special. :)
bazza
July 25, 2007, 08:46 AMI have a dictionary at home. :P
bazza
July 25, 2007, 08:53 AMIf it's a transliteration, I'm guessing it's something like 'jie shen'.
babliku
July 25, 2007, 09:04 AMnehehehe it's not, but close! guess you'll only know the answer when you get home. :)
bazza
July 25, 2007, 10:13 AMji shen? hehe
babliku
July 25, 2007, 12:21 PMyou are impatient. When are you getting home?
excuter
July 25, 2007, 01:07 PMjia shen?
bazza
July 25, 2007, 03:21 PMOk got it, it is in my dictionary. :) It's 嘉绅 [jiā shēn]. :D
babliku
July 26, 2007, 08:49 AMawww. oh well. It was fun while it lasted haha
John
July 25, 2007, 08:24 AMbabliku, Nice of you to continue to torment Bazza... :P
John
July 24, 2007, 09:43 AMHa, that's pretty cool! I love this kind of thing. So I guess your name is Jason, then?