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Andrei

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Hi,
Could you explain this character its meaning and if it is an old character or modern one or maybe it is rather a phrase?
Thanks
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JD

状元
I asked my coworker, who is a native Chinese speaker from Shanghai, to look at the pictures. He said they didn't look like anything to him.

Is this a picture of street graffiti? It looks like something painted on a concrete wall.
 

Andrei

Member
Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
This was found by someone in the bathroom on the wall, before there lived a Chinese family in this apartment,
Regards,
 
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abdrifter

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I might be wrong, but I think it says there is treasure hidden in the wall. o_O
 

feng

榜眼
found by someone in the bathroom on the wall
It says, "For a good time, call . . . "

Seriously, could you take a better photo? I just realized there appear to be one or two other strokes (I first saw seven) that I didn't see the first 10 times I looked at this. A better photo might reveal it to be more than one character. At present it comes closest to an archaic character that I can type but then does not display after I save my post (ㄐ|ㄝˋ ; means big), but it isn't that.

This does not look like oracles bones to me. It looks like lesser seal script (小篆) or maybe Warring States script (戰國文字). But I can't find a match for it as the top three strokes don't form anything familiar to me. It could very easily be that the person who wrote it wrote it wrong, whether consciously or not. It could very easily be that I don't know this character.

As I have noted elsewhere on the board, Chinese people are not 'native speakers' of Chinese characters. Even for modern standard forms in Taiwan or the PRC it is not uncommon for highly educated people to get things wrong. For older forms of the script, native speakers/native readers almost never know much of anything about it. I have had professional CSL teachers tell me all sorts of nonsense about Chinese characters, and more of that from others with loads of formal education in subjects not specific to the history of Chinese characters.
 
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