our intern chi - who's on this list - can do it for you, for very cheap.
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On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Mike Bigalke wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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