my friend brought this back from japan, it's an antique candleholder or something and apparently was made in korea and brought back

anyway it has some text on the bottom and we'd like to know what it says. any help would be great

Wyred

United States52 Posts

October 27 2010 08:50 GMT

I've spoken Korean for about 18 years now and only have only learn to read and write at an elementary school level. I have to ask: Is that Korean? It must be older Korean or something... It looks so different from the regular Hangul alphabet I can't discern too many characters.

Cr4zyH0r5e

Peru1308 Posts

October 27 2010 08:52 GMT

dude I'm not really all that fluent in korean but I can read it and that looks like just a random pattern of lines

Rekrul

Korea (South)17174 Posts

October 27 2010 08:53 GMT

lmao wtf

SLoGgErDoGgEr

Korea (South)340 Posts

October 27 2010 08:56 GMT

racism

storm44

1293 Posts

October 27 2010 08:57 GMT

bro thats not korean.

Vanka

China1336 Posts

October 27 2010 08:59 GMT

looks like it might be chinese characters, actually--koreans used to use chinese characters way back when like the rest of east asia. With old stamps/signatures and stuff like that there's a weird chinese font/way of writing the characters that looks a lot like that.

Have no clue what says though...

GTR

51558 Posts

October 27 2010 09:02 GMT

shit looks tibetan.

Smix

United States4549 Posts

October 27 2010 09:03 GMT

Dude at least post a full picture

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

October 27 2010 09:06 GMT

#10

lol it might be super old chinese chars made into squarey looking style but its not korean..

SnowFantasy

4173 Posts

October 27 2010 09:07 GMT

#11

It says: "Made in China".

edit: dunno really, doesn't look like chinese to me and definitely is not korean.

x2fst

1272 Posts

October 27 2010 09:09 GMT

#12

yeah nfi, apparently it's pretty old. could just be the mark of whoever made it, or yeah chinese or whatever

or maybe my friend got ripped off lol

candle goes on the spike i guess

wooozy

3813 Posts

October 27 2010 09:19 GMT

#13

if you turn your head sideways you see numbers

that means something right?

silentreality

Korea (South)222 Posts

October 27 2010 09:23 GMT

#14

I smell a DaVinci code sequel.

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

October 27 2010 09:29 GMT

#15

That's as chinese as it is english words squared up in boxes, lol.

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

October 27 2010 09:31 GMT

#16

Ixas

930 Posts

October 27 2010 09:39 GMT

#17

Dun see chinese words here. looks like gibberish

micronesia

United States24756 Posts

October 27 2010 09:48 GMT

#18

On October 27 2010 18:03 Smix wrote:
Dude at least post a full picture

If you right click the image and select 'view image' or something like that then it won't get clipped... maybe that was your problem?

TL now clips images that are too big instead of resizing them.

Karliath

United States2214 Posts

October 27 2010 09:49 GMT

#19

On October 27 2010 18:48 micronesia wrote:

Show nested quote +

If you right click the image and select 'view image' or something like that then it won't get clipped... maybe that was your problem?

TL now clips images that are too big instead of resizing them.

For me, they start off clipped until they are completely loaded.
Then, it resizes automatically.

Redunzl

862 Posts

October 27 2010 09:57 GMT

#20

i think the characters should be read vertically (by shifting that image left 90d) and not horizontally as you have it displayed. They seem to be a mishmash of hangul and hanzi.

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