Anyone know chinese/mandarin?

[nether]

I'm desperately looking for the mandarin character for "tong" meaning hand I believe? But it's definently called "tong". Does anyone know of where I can find the chinese/mandarin character map for the Adobe Suite or MS Word? I need the symbol for a client's logo. Thanks for any help in advance!

[budafist]

Maybe you should try a Chinese forum for the Chinese character?

As for the software, I can't help there, but stick around someone else may be able to.

Are you able to ask your client for help or are they not Chinese?

If they are not Chinese, you need to be particularly careful when using another language for a logo. You don't want to offend anyone!

Knew a guy that got a Japanese character tattooed on himself. He picked it out of the book at the tattoo parlour. When he asked one of our Japanese friends to confirm (after he got the tattoo), our Japanese friend said that it definately wasn't Japanese and he didn't know what it said. I think maybe the tattoo parlour made up the characters or something as a joke.

So when you do get a solution, run it by at least 2 people to confirm you got the right thing!

We've all seen hilarious Engrish language written on Chinese and other countries export products! It can be a disaster!

[nether]

Well the client isn't Chinese and he's given me a crude drawing of it, but I'm not good with freehand illustration. It's not that big of a project, just for a small businesses logo, but I really can't find anything anywhere. I'd like a character I could edit in Illustrator or something if possible. I thought I could just google it and copy and paste it or something. So yeah, I know what it looks like but I have no digital copy of it. Is there any font package I could get or something for Illustrator or Word?

[D-Frag]

Ive had to do some interior work for a chinese restaurant. I ended up finding a website that had the symbols for different meanings, took a screenshot, and then re drew it in illustrator. its goint to be your best bet for just a logo/one symbol type deal.

[hewligan]

手 <-- Is that it?

I'm not even remotely Chinese speaking, but I can use the fish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/).

[budafist]

Ok, I will try and ask my mother next time I see her to write hand down for me in Chinese. I promise to try and remember. Hand hand hand hand hand....hand. I think I will remember now.

Then at least you have someone I trust's opinion. It's up to you whether or not you wanna trust my mum.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I know how to say a few dirty things in Chinese. But I don't think that will help you in this venture.... Not to mention that I don't even know if it's in Mandarin or Cantonese....

[budafist]

Ok, I used babelfish and emailed what it came up with for hand (手) to my mother. I also asked if it was appropriate to use this character in a logo to represent hands. Some characters are useful only in a certain context so that would be important here.

I will let you know what she says when she emails me back. Might not be until Monday though since that's when she normally checks her emails. Hope you can wait til then.

[budafist]

I know how to say a few dirty things in Chinese. But I don't think that will help you in this venture.... Not to mention that I don't even know if it's in Mandarin or Cantonese....

Well Virgo, I know Cantonese so you could try it out on me ;)

[morea]

chicka chicka bow bow?

[nether]

thanks a TON for the help guys, much appreciated. I'm really trying to avoid having to draw it as I'm not good at all at freehand illustration. I do know that it is Mandarin, and maybe it stands for "China Hand"? I do know it's called "Tong". I'm confused on it as well :(

[Virgo Nightingale]

What Virgo knows in Chinese:

EMUI = little girl, little sister

SADINEI = 'pancake', shit... your general "god-dam I fvcked up" kind of curse

And my favorite:

CHIBE LACHA = dirty pv55y... if you get my drift without the forum's automatic-bad-word-substitution coming into play...;)

[Two-Toe Tom]

here's what i know:
see fut gwai = ass ghost
tsu tau bing = pig head
hum gah chan = wishing death on your family
pok gai = fall on the street

[Virgo Nightingale]

Oh, and:

DIM-PO: crazy girl

DIM_PA: crazy guy

[Two-Toe Tom]

har gow, siu mai = yummy food
lay ho mah fan ahhh = u r very troublesome
lay seun sai ah? = u want to die?

[Virgo Nightingale]

Wow, Two Tom... I think you're on the border of fluency... :D

*at least compared to my short list of somewhat dirty phrases...* :o

[Two-Toe Tom]

sai gwai poh, tsau hai sik sai lam yun chien = dam white girl, only knows how to spend man's money

mut yeh yi si ah? = what is the meaning of this?

[Virgo Nightingale]

You live with a Chinese roommate, don't you? He's feeding you cute phrases to post, isn't he? :p

You're just showing off at this point! :D

[Two-Toe Tom]

soh loy, aw hai tsun gok yun :p = silly girl, i am chinese :p

[CkretAjint]

cweem o sum yong gui =











...cream of some young guy. :D

[Two-Toe Tom]

haha, that's what i put on my chow mien

[Virgo Nightingale]

soh loy, aw hai tsun gok yun :p = silly girl, i am chinese :p
Really? Sorry, I din't know... Tom isn't an especially Chinese name... Not that "Debra" is particularly Puerto Rican :rolleyes:...

[Virgo Nightingale]

haha, that's what i put on my chow mien
I had a feeling you were one sick pancaker... :D

[Two-Toe Tom]

can't u tell by my accent? :rolleyes:

[Virgo Nightingale]

Yeah, cause I can hear you like a voice in my head... :D

[Two-Toe Tom]

I had a feeling you were one sick pancaker... :D

cream of SUM yung gai, not my own, sheesh :p

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ya mean you're eating the cream of sum OTHER yung gai??? :eek:

[budafist]

This is becoming hilarious.

Tom: siu mai is my favourite dim sum. My family call me the face of siu mai.

MayKay low su sic hong bo bow = Mickey Mouse eats hamburger.

Oh tou oh ah. Oh seong sic darngoh = I'm hungry. I wanna eat cake.

I like to teach my bf totally random Cantonese phrases :)

[CkretAjint]

no pearl necklace?

[Two-Toe Tom]

huh? sum yung gai = mushroom, what were u talkin bout? :confused:

[budafist]

doung go = mushroom.

[CkretAjint]

*shakes his head in shame*

[Two-Toe Tom]

lay goh hau ho chow ah, lay may chat ah ah? = your breath is really smelly, you didn't brush your teeth yet?

[Two-Toe Tom]

goh sai yun deen boh gai mahn doh sai ahhhhh! = the goddam computer is so slowwwww!

[CkretAjint]

Your moms a whore and your father smells of Elderberris?

[Two-Toe Tom]

lay goh ma hai giu gai tong mai lay goh bah hai chi elderberries goh may

[Virgo Nightingale]

Cool beans and all, but what kind of Chinese do y'all speak? I've always wondered which language I was speaking when I was showing of my "mad China skills"...

[CkretAjint]

hey look! There's your mandarin 'tong' up there ^^^^^ :D

[Two-Toe Tom]

i speak cantonese

[Virgo Nightingale]

All this talk of "tong" and thong or somethin'.... Is there a hand in my thong? What the...

[Virgo Nightingale]

i speak cantonese So was what I'd said in Chinese Cantonese then? Did what I'd posted make sense to you? j/curious

[Two-Toe Tom]

dunno about mandarin, but in cantonese, hand = sau. maybe you're thinking of those things u pick up salads with?

[Virgo Nightingale]

I eat with my hands, so sure... my hand is what I pick up my salad with... :confused:

[budafist]

le hau low mang ah! = You very take life = You are annoying as *****

[Two-Toe Tom]

So was what I'd said in Chinese Cantonese then? Did what I'd posted make sense to you? j/curious

some of it sorta made sense, not all of it tho

[budafist]

I speak Cantonese too. Can't speak Mandarin though. Except a few random things. Mandarin: Sin Se Lahn = New Zealand

Tom, can you read/write Chinese? Can you figure out the OP's question?

[Two-Toe Tom]

tsu tau bing, mm sik design tsau mm ho hawt yun design lah! lay beh yu fan och kay yong comic sans soon so lah, cheun choy = pig-head, if you don't know how to design, then don't act like you do. why don't you just go home and use comic sans, idiot

[Two-Toe Tom]

I speak Cantonese too. Can't speak Mandarin though. Except a few random things. Mandarin: Sin Se Lahn = New Zealand

Tom, can you read/write Chinese? Can you figure out the OP's question?

nope, can't read at all. i know you can google chinese fonts tho.

[budafist]

how gow seuw ah! = ROFL

[budafist]

Ah, so you are like me! Were you born in Canadia or in a Cantonese speaking land?

[Two-Toe Tom]

i was born in canada, my mom's from hk and dad's from china

[Two-Toe Tom]

lay deem gai yiu yong goh starburst ah? deem gai ahhhh!??! = why do you have to use the starburst? why!??!

[urstwile]

Ahem:

i r lavaspit and all recent noobs, this r not serius enuf thred :mad:

[Two-Toe Tom]

aiyah, yeun loy oh may sik tsow chan, soh yee oh gum gwai say tong oh lah! = oh crap, i haven't eaten dinner yet, that's why i'm so dam hungry!

[Two-Toe Tom]

:|

<serious voice>
designz haiz deem yeun gwan yi gho artz geh? oh hai ying tsun mau, yi goh hai ying tsun thread = how iz dezine relate to teh artz? i am serious cat, this is serious thread
</serious voice>

[Virgo Nightingale]

<serious voice>
designz haiz deem yeun gwan yi gho artz geh? oh hai serious mau, yi goh hai serious thread= how iz dezine relate to teh artz? i am serious cat, this is serious thread
</serious voice> What that needs is a Chinese character on a lolcat image... :D

[urstwile]

Much better.

K thanx bai.

The management.

[Two-Toe Tom]

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2446/yingtsunmauza5.jpg

[budafist]

Ying Tsun Mau is awesome!

I was born in HK but came to NZ before I was old enough to speak.

[Two-Toe Tom]

is there a large chinese population in nz?

[morea]

Your moms a whore and your father smells of Elderberris?

tsk. The actual quote is "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" :D


http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2446/yingtsunmauza5.jpg

wat zis says? Him are cute.

[CkretAjint]

I am sorry Mo, I was extremely tired last night, drunk, and talking about hookers with my friends. I guess I had them on my mind... :p

Forgive me please?

[morea]

of course.

Now go away or I will taunt you a second time.
http://i23.tinypic.com/1zywp03.jpg

:D

[CkretAjint]

no shrubury?

or herrins??


wow... that stinks! lol :D

[morea]

Exodus is the keeper of both the shrubberies and herring.
I'm the one living in a 'french speaking country'. :D

[CkretAjint]

That's okay, I secretly wish I was from there instead of this heat box of a crap hole state!

Do you think TBK will mind if I am him for halloween?
http://www.wackyplanet.com/monty-python-blackknight-costume.html

Is it true no one really locks there doors up there?

[morea]

That's okay, I secretly wish I was from there instead of this heat box of a crap hole state!

I'm from NY. I sympathize. ;)


Do you think TBK will mind if I am him for halloween?
http://www.wackyplanet.com/monty-python-blackknight-costume.html

I don't think he'd mind, but you might need to pay him royalties.


Is it true no one really locks there doors up there?

Absolutely not.

[CkretAjint]

hrmmm royalties? I think I shall pass. I am pretty poor recently since I am relocating my current dwelling place. I probably just stick with my original costume plan: ipod commercial guy!

http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/7054941172872585.JPG

[teniworks]

no pearl necklace?
WHOA!:eek:

[Two-Toe Tom]

tsk. The actual quote is "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" :D




wat zis says? Him are cute.

he says "i am serious cat, dis iz serious thread"

[Two-Toe Tom]

hrmmm royalties? I think I shall pass. I am pretty poor recently since I am relocating my current dwelling place. I probably just stick with my original costume plan: ipod commercial guy!

http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/7054941172872585.JPG

haha, great costumes! :D

[urstwile]

That pic got me to thinking that I have no clue what to do as a costume for Halloween this year. :(

[Two-Toe Tom]

why don't you dress up as ipod commercial ppl?

[urstwile]

Ya think? :D

[budafist]

is there a large chinese population in nz?

You be the judge. About 9% of NZ's population is Asian with about 30-40% of that Chinese. A lot of these will be mainland China, Mandarin speakers though, but we do have a few HK people here too.

[nether]

Dear... sweet... lord... what happened to my question? I got all excited when I saw multiple pages of comments :( Anyway, still in dire need of help if anyone can solve the riddle. Here it is again just as a refresher:

Does anyone know of where I can get a vector image of a specific chinese/mandarin character? Or if not vector, simply something I can import or paste into Illustrator to create a logo? They just want the mandarin character "tong" included in there logo.


nope, can't read at all. i know you can google chinese fonts tho.

Have a website it refers you too? I'm not coming up with anything there :(

[hewligan]

Well, we think we might have found the character sometime back on page 1, but we won't be sure until Buda hears back from her Mum, which probably won't be until tomorrow...

[budafist]

Yup, you'll have to sit tight.

Also we came to the conclusion that "tong" was definately not the Cantonese pronounciation of "hand", but could still be correct in Mandarin. In any case, Cantonese and Mandarin are written the same so it really doesn't matter how hand is pronounced in Mandarin.

What is your client's business by the way?

[Two-Toe Tom]

Dear... sweet... lord... what happened to my question? I got all excited when I saw multiple pages of comments :( Anyway, still in dire need of help if anyone can solve the riddle. Here it is again just as a refresher:

Does anyone know of where I can get a vector image of a specific chinese/mandarin character? Or if not vector, simply something I can import or paste into Illustrator to create a logo? They just want the mandarin character "tong" included in there logo.




Have a website it refers you too? I'm not coming up with anything there :(

http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/edv/sinopc/chinese_fonts.htm

that's the first one that came up when i googled "chinese fonts" i think you have to install some plugin first to use it tho.

[Two-Toe Tom]

You be the judge. About 9% of NZ's population is Asian with about 30-40% of that Chinese. A lot of these will be mainland China, Mandarin speakers though, but we do have a few HK people here too.

about 10% of toronto's population is chinese, but they're clumped together, so you get certain areas where the majority is chinese.

[budafist]

Mum said:

Yes, correct writing of hand

However, I am thinking that may be another character more suitable as a logo for works done by hand.

OK, a bit of role reversal here...imagine a Chinese company that wants the English word meaning hand inserted into their logo. They look up Phalanges in a dictionary and it seems to mean what they are after. Now, while phalanges means fingers and could represent a hand, it's probably not a good idea to put the word Phalanges in a logo. Understand?