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What are these courtesy names and given names? - confusion in translation
This question may be a little long, but please bear with me.
Over on the Genealogy & Family History stack, here on StackExchange, I asked the question Does this Chinese gravestone belong to James ...
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How to format a specific address in Chinese?
How to format this address? I want to sent package and not sure what is street, what is town…
zhang yan 18790555906 China Guangdong Province Dongguan Shatian Town
shan bian lu bin hai ming zhu ...
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Looking to identify a watercolour signature (Characters identified: 郭連訓)
Looking to identify a watercolour signature i just purcashed. 1989 made. any help is much appreciated.
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Can anyone help translate an artist's seal for me? (Characters identified: 臨摹)
I have an original art print of a Wei Jin tombs brick but I can't get an accurate translation of the artist's seal. Below is a picture of the seal. Thank you to all who reply.
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What comes after 小心 in 小心（？）落，请勿靠近 written on these boxes in messy handwriting?
This may be one of my more frivolous questions, but I was sitting at the tea shop, and beside me were these boxes:
Both these boxes have written on them in messy handwriting:
小心（？）落，请勿靠近
I can't ...
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Identify Painting Chinese or Japanese? (Characters identified: 華岳 洪氏)
I bought a scroll painting. It looks very old painting. It is a very beautiful painting but I want to know the artist name and what it is written in there.
Kindly help me in identifying this.
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Help translating calligraphy
I own this painting with Chinese calligraphy I would Very grateful for help with a translation.
Thank you in advance. Dre
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Help finding the artist
I was given a painted scroll and would like some help in identifying the artist and finding out if it is of any value.
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Help translating inscription and seal
I was recently gifted this painting and I’m curious about the painter. A friend said the painting indicates it was done in Autumn 1980, but she couldn’t read the painter or buyers name. I would ...
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Hi I found a teapot and need help
I found a teapot with a maker's mark I'm trying to learn more and find out whose it is. Unfortunately I know nothing about these kind of things, I just thought was cool when I bought it, but would ...
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Painting signature translation (Characters identified: 筠新)
Painting done in China in 1987 by local artist. I've asked many Chinese Nationals to translate, unfortunately no one could. I was always told that it is written in very ancient Chinese.
Any help would ...
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Seal on Yixing Teapot (Characters identified: 吳紅芳制)
I found this little teapot at a thrift store today, and am intrigued by the characters on the bottom.
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Two Large (2x2x2) Stone Seals needing transcription (Characters identified: 志在聖賢 爲官心存)
Large Stone Seals needing transcription
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Seal script identification/translation
Please flag or comment if this type of request is not allowed — from searching on this SE community it seems like these types of questions are fairly common. I've tried some of the links in accepted ...
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I would love to know the meaning of this script on a carved box given to me as a gift from a visitor to Singapore. (Characters identified: 珍藏)
This script is engraved on a carved box given to me as a gift Singapore. I would love to know the meaning of this script (pictures attached). Thanks in advance
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