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Re: Chinese Silk Art ?
Posted By: bill h
Posted Date: Feb 05, 2015 (03:57 AM)
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There are three variants of this character: 勳, 勲 and their simplified counterpart 勋, all pronounced xun (first tone) and meaning meritorious deed, merits or rank.

The last three characters wind up as 承, 勲 & 繒 (Cheng, Xun & Zeng), with Zeng meaning "Silk Fabrics" but also being a surname.

I did Google character searches with all the combinations and came up with lots of people with given name of Chengxun and the surnames Wang and Jiang (王 & 江), which both seemed to fit the damaged space. No hits on these names in the context of silk fabrics, though.

FYI for Rat and others who have a knowledge of Chinese characters and their radicals, the link below to Jim Breen's WWWJDIC online Japanese dictionary, which supports the Unicode Organization, has a multi-radical search function which can ease the task of looking up some of these difficult characters. Once the character is found, there's a kanji lookup function that will take you to the Unicode page for the Chinese character, where Mandarin and Cantonese transcriptions, as well as those for Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese are listed.

Best regards,

Bill H

Link :WWWJDIC




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