chinese alphabet

theleg · 2 May 2007 at 23:15

Psyk said:
How would he know what it meant?

Not hard to check these things...but the guys a moron for askin someone who works in a cafe anyway..

Elmer · 2 May 2007 at 23:19

Psyk said:
How would he know what it meant?

Due to the next Chinese person he encountered saying "hey mate why have you got Sweet and Sour Pork tattooed on your bicep"

Raymond Lin · 2 May 2007 at 23:25

The only thing you can do, on the safe side, is to get a Chinese newspaper, look in the sports section and find the word for chelsea in there. That is as official as you are going to get for a phonetic translation.

Mr Jones · 2 May 2007 at 23:26

Elmer said:
Due to the next Chinese person he encountered saying "hey mate why have you got Sweet and Sour Pork tattooed on your bicep"

He didn't trash me and he realised what it meant after another counter-boy told him. Lucky for me, he had some sense of humour and laughed it off as "next time I want some sweet and sour, I'll just show them *this*"

He didn't blame me - he was pretty drunk when he came in asking me for "cool chinese words for his next tattoo"...

Moral of the story: I got lucky, he was drunk, now he's got something to tell his grandkids...

jesta · 2 May 2007 at 23:38

Dr Jones said:
He didn't trash me and he realised what it meant after another counter-boy told him. Lucky for me, he had some sense of humour and laughed it off as "next time I want some sweet and sour, I'll just show them *this*"

He didn't blame me - he was pretty drunk when he came in asking me for "cool chinese words for his next tattoo"...

Moral of the story: I got lucky, he was drunk, now he's got something to tell his grandkids...

Lol,you were very lucky there mate!

I did something similar well nowhere near that daring but my mates always ask me to speak chinese and write chinese for them one day I just got so fed up I agreed.With my chinese limited to UK A-Level Chinese standard I did not know how to right something that sounds like Christopher so I wrote the first thing that came to mind,yup Crispy Duck. Still haven't told him its not actually his name tho.

SpeedFreak · 2 May 2007 at 23:48

Chronos-X said:
Cherra-see

translated as car poo by the way(almost)

thats the truth as well

iamdjdz · 2 May 2007 at 23:52

Find a chinese restaurant in Chelsea and ask?

SpeedFreak · 2 May 2007 at 23:55

iamdjdz said:
Find a chinese restaurant in Chelsea and ask?

if you really want, i can find out on friday. A friend of mine supports chelsea and since he's from Hong Kong I'm sure he'll know.

Mr Jones · 3 May 2007 at 00:02

SpeedFreak said:
if you really want, i can find out on friday. A friend of mine supports chelsea and since he's from Hong Kong I'm sure he'll know.

Errm... I just went to Chelsea FC site and there's a Chinese page, can you not see the characters?

Chelsea.cn said:
切尔西

Can you see 3 chinese characters in the quote? That's the official chinese phonetics for Chelsea.

It reads- Chel-er-sea and thats read phonetically in Mandarin (what majority of Chinese speaks, not Cantonese, which majority Hong Kong people speaks)

Calder · 3 May 2007 at 00:12

Has he even said the team is Chelsea? :confused:

Raymond Lin · 3 May 2007 at 00:25

Dr Jones said:
It reads- Chel-er-sea and thats read phonetically in Mandarin (what majority of Chinese speaks, not Cantonese, which majority Hong Kong people speaks)

Thats the thing, he can get Traditional or simplified, Mandarin or Cantonese. So what's right ?

theleg · 3 May 2007 at 00:30

by the way...why on EARTH does he want chelsea written in chinese?

SpeedFreak · 3 May 2007 at 00:40

i'm confused now :confused:

Lolcb · 3 May 2007 at 01:05

If that 3 word is from .cn, then it should be simplified chinese.

as far as im aware, the only chinese speaking countries/community using traditional chinese - taiwan and hong kong.

PyroboyUK · 3 May 2007 at 12:19

Balddog said:
by the way...why on EARTH does he want chelsea written in chinese?

Sorry guys havent been in the thread last night, was asked to post it from a mate, so used my phone to do it.Chelsea....its Rangers he wants

. I aint into football so i wouldnt get a tattoo like that, but who am i to talk....I just got the Suzuki Hayabusa Logo as a Tattoo on my arm yesterday

Thanks for the help guys, i tried to do a bit of searching but as you all said best bet is to go into the Tattoo place or newspaper articles.

MookJong · 3 May 2007 at 12:40

If your going to get a Chinese tatoo get a propper Chinese word or phrase. What on earth is the point in getting "Rangers" in Chinese?

It's quite laughable.

PyroboyUK · 3 May 2007 at 12:52

MookJong said:
If your going to get a Chinese tatoo get a propper Chinese word or phrase. What on earth is the point in getting "Rangers" in Chinese?

It's quite laughable.

I wouldnt know, its not me thats getting it. I am just trying to help someone out here, everyone to there own thing. Was just wondering if there was anywere i could find out how to get it translated, your opinion on what you think of the actual tattoo is not needed thanks.

Baz · 3 May 2007 at 15:00

I had a similar problem, so I got a Chinese person at our work to do three different variants of what I wanted (My wifes name and mine, and when/where we got married

)

Then I waited a few months and asked her to do it again

If anyone asks, I usually jokingly say its my favourite chinky dish

theleg · 3 May 2007 at 15:02

PyroboyUK said:
Sorry guys havent been in the thread last night, was asked to post it from a mate, so used my phone to do it.Chelsea....its Rangers he wants . I aint into football so i wouldnt get a tattoo like that, but who am i to talk....I just got the Suzuki Hayabusa Logo as a Tattoo on my arm yesterday

Thanks for the help guys, i tried to do a bit of searching but as you all said best bet is to go into the Tattoo place or newspaper articles.

pics?

ic1male · 3 May 2007 at 15:28

What about being a bit different and having it written in Japanese katakana script instead? You don't often see that on people's bodies.

It would be about (re-i-n-jya---su) six and a half characters long. Can't write it for you because my work PC doesn't have Japanese installed.