{"id":3911,"date":"2010-11-19T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2010-11-19T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T11:02:52","slug":"chinese-puzzle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3911","title":{"rendered":"Chinese puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/unidentified\/chinese.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"400\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 20px;\" alt=\"Chinese characters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can any of you decipher the Chinese in this image?<\/p>\n<p>The larger characters appear to be &#8220;\u4ed9\u9732\u660e\u73e0\u65b9 \u6717\u6f64\u677e\u98a8\u6c34\u6708\u5317&#8221; (xi\u0101n l\u00f9 m\u00edng zh\u016b f\u0101ng l\u01ceng r\u00f9n s\u014dng f\u0113ng shu\u01d0 yu\u00e8 b\u011bi). <\/p>\n<p>The smaller characters on the left appear to be &#8220;??\u6275\u753e\u9999\u996d\u77f3\u751f?&#8221; (??z\u0101i xi\u0101ng f\u00e0n d\u00e0n sh\u0113ng ?) &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure about the first two or the last one. <\/p>\n<p>I know what parts of it mean, but not the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>[Update 21\/11\/2010]: according to a friend or a friend, the characters are &#8220;\u4ed9\u9732\u660e\u73e0\u65b9\u660e\u6da6\uff0c\u677e\u98ce\u660e\u6708\u6bd4\u6e05\u534e\u3002 \u4e8e\u7559\u9999\u9986\uff0c\u77f3\u751f\u753b\u3002&#8221; This is from \u300a\u5c0f\u7a97\u5e7d\u8bb0\u300b (xi\u0103ochu\u0101ng y\u014duj\u00ec) in \u300a\u9189\u53e4\u5802\u5251\u626b\u300b (zu\u00ec g\u016d t\u00e1ng ji\u00e0n s\u0103o), Volume 12, Paragraph 121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can any of you decipher the Chinese in this image? The larger characters appear to be &#8220;\u4ed9\u9732\u660e\u73e0\u65b9 \u6717\u6f64\u677e\u98a8\u6c34\u6708\u5317&#8221; (xi\u0101n l\u00f9 m\u00edng zh\u016b f\u0101ng l\u01ceng r\u00f9n s\u014dng f\u0113ng shu\u01d0 yu\u00e8 b\u011bi). The smaller characters on the left appear to be &#8220;??\u6275\u753e\u9999\u996d\u77f3\u751f?&#8221; (??z\u0101i xi\u0101ng f\u00e0n d\u00e0n sh\u0113ng ?) &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure about the first two or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-puzzles","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}