The best process is to take the writing that you have and take it your local Chinese restaurant and find someone who reads both Chinese and English. That is what I have done in the past.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote: > > Perhaps an example might help. Here's an image of some Chinese characters: > > http://www.chinesecomputing.com/images/background2.gif > > This appears to be an array of characters of 6 columns wide and 10 > rows deep. Counting from the upper left corner and starting with 1, > the character in column 1, row 1 looks like a rectangle with a > vertical line bisecting it. While the character in column 4, row 9 > looks like a dash or horizontal line. And the character in column 6, > row 8 looks like a cup of tea on top of a dresser. > ou > Some questions: > > 1) How can I find out what those characters means? > 2) How can I use Google translate to find out what those characters mean? > 3) Are there on-line dictionaries which I can browse to find the > character I'm looking for? > > My interest is not so much in knowing what those particular characters > mean. Rather I'm interested in knowing the process by which I can > discover what those characters mean. > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Craig Tatham<[email protected]> wrote: > > If you have those characters on a webpage, then you can copy and paste > the > > characters into Google Translate and it will convert from Chinese to > > English. Trick is knowing if it is simplified or traditional ... > typically > > if its a very complex character it is traditional, simpler ones are > > simplified. > > Craig > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> How does one translate Chinese into English? > >> > >> I've used Google Translate to translate simple words and phrases from > >> English to Spanish, German, or French and back. I've even used it to > >> translate English into Chinese. But how to I translate Chinese into > >> English? That is, how do I enter the Chinese characters? > >> > >> For example, I have a Chinese character that kind of looks like two > >> W's, one on top of the other. How do I enter that in to the text box? > >> > >> Regards, > >> - Robert > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
