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     I came across a symbol on a piece of clothing, sketched it to the best
of my abilities and then digitized it with hopes of someone out there seeing
it and being able to tell me what it means.  It appears to be either
Japanese or Chinese, and if someone can tell me what it means, could that
person also tell me what source I could access to confirm those findings?


                                           Thank you!
                                           Chris M. Darby

zai...@clubmet.metrobbs.com
735...@compuserve.com
int...@cyberspace.org

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In article <950...@clubmet.metrobbs.com>,
zai...@clubmet.metrobbs.com wrote:
> 
> 
>      I came across a symbol on a piece of clothing, sketched it to the best
> of my abilities and then digitized it with hopes of someone out there seeing
> it and being able to tell me what it means.  It appears to be either
> Japanese or Chinese, and if someone can tell me what it means, could that
> person also tell me what source I could access to confirm those findings?


I don't claim to be an expert in Chinese text at all, as I speak Korean,
not Chinese.  

I didn't recognise any part of that/those symbols.  I also looked in my
1800 most common Chinese symbols dictionary and found nothing even
vaguely resembling that.  My roommate (who is also a Korean Linguist)
has never seen it either.

Again, I'm by no means an expert, but I'd say it's not Oriental
symbols, unless it's slang for 'fuck you' or 'piss off' or something...
I don't know any slang in hanja.  

Although, it _COULD_ be the original Chinese symbol for 
Coca-Cola, which, when written (and spoken?) in Chinese reads as:

"Bite the wax tadpole" .


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