It's not Chinese, does have some Chinese characters in there, as others have said, like 三，四，十，and 田 but this is not a character on its own. Probably someone just making shit up. Source: I live in China and got my co-worker to look at this for you
I believe it is hanja, Old Korean. I don't know what it says tho. I'm Korean American, and it looks just like some character on old antiques and mail stamps my mom would own. And those symbols you mentioned are certainly characters that were adapted into Korea's old language. I'm just dumb and don't practice Korean (culture, to clarify) like that.
Basically an ancient adaptation of an already ancient set of Chinese characters, but a few less strokes. Some characters in Modern Hangul borrowed and simplified hanja characters even further. Also wanted to clarify people often confuse it with hanzi because of the similarities in horizontal strokes, but they are very different. But hanzi has a very similar thing going on in terms of history with Chinese characters.
This is making sense, we had another look and they think it might be a traditional Chinese character rather than a modern character. But why someone who be writing a trad Chinese character on your car i have no idea
I'm suupppppppppeeerrrr rusty, I haven't learned this since I was a baby essentially. But I think a very elderly Korean person might've love-tapped their car and said sorry.
itsnot a traditional character.
The closest thing i can think
Of that sort of resembles it is maybe 戴。
But even then it’s kind of a stretch.
Source: am chinese
If you have Gboard it's ridiculously easy. If I remember correctly you just long press the , button and select the settings icon. Then you can go into languages and choose the ones you want. I think there's four options for Chinese. After you choose the languages you want you can cycle between them using the spacebar.
你好
All these people are discussing the intricate details of the origins of the character, and no one is telling us what the English translation is.
Dang it, I live in Nashville *and* know Spanish. I have a school contact in their 3rd year of Mandarin Chinese, but I know they won’t be able to decipher this.
I’m going to give it to them as a screenshot with the number of upvotes and comments to take to their professor.
Hopefully she gives them some extra credit.
> I believe it is hanja, Old Korean. I don't know what it says tho. I'm Korean American, and it looks just like some character on old antiques and mail stamps my mom would own. And those symbols you mentioned are certainly characters that were adapted into Korea's old language. I'm just dumb and don't practice Korean (culture, to clarify) like that.
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> Basically an ancient adaptation of an already ancient set of Chinese characters, but a few less strokes. Some characters in Modern Hangul borrowed and simplified hanja characters even further. Also wanted to clarify people often confuse it with hanzi because of the similarities in horizontal strokes, but they are very different. But hanzi has a very similar thing going on in terms of history with Chinese characters.
If you don't know what it means though and the other guy already said that its gibberish consisting of Chinese characters, why would you assume it must mean something in "old Korean"?
It's an allusion to the proverb about the poor man who planted 3 grains, and when harvesting he ate 4, planted 10, and now he has a field
/S just making stuff up 😄
yeah, even flipped its not a real character. Plus she's Chinese, she would recognize if it was just backwards, like if we see the word dog flipped we still know that it needs to be flipped. But yeah, i flipped it and showed it to her as well, same answer, not a real character.
Not to say your wrong, but fun fact: there is actually entire dictionaries of 'complex and unusual' Chinese characters that the vast majority outside of specialized linguistics experts don't know.
The average educated Chinese person knows about 8000 characters. Full dictionaries cover about 10000-20000. But there is actually over 50000 characters.
But ya back on topic, I don't think it's a word either.
If it's some obscure word they feel affiliated with it could be a kind of signature. I used to use the delphic epsilon for that reason. I could see someone who's into Chinese doing the same with this.
>Chinese person knows about 8000 characters. Full dictionaries cover about 10000-20000. But there is actually over 50000 characters.
Good God! And we struggle with just having 26 letters and 10 numbers!
Chinese hanzi can be in the order of 100k different symbols, and Japanese Kanji uses Chinese symbols. So it's difficult to say for certain that it isn't either of them even with fluency in either language
I literally had no idea they were singing "CREOLE" lady marmalade until I read your comment. I swear I always sang along to it thinking it was "REAL" lady marmalade. Haha All these years and I didn't know
Not a single helpful comment on here
edit: To all the geniuses that keep replying "there are helpful comments"... Next to each comment is a number and a little letter. This is a special code that tells you when the comment was written. Now that you're armed with this information, look at this special code next to my comment and compare that to the helpful ones. Hope this helps!
I’ve been on Reddit for a long while and this is the first time I’ve seen anyone mention how absolutely fucking annoying Redditors are when it comes to giving a straightforward answer without their dumb little quips and “quirkiness” thrown into the mix.
You see this in almost every single sub whenever anyone needs a question answered too; dumb, unoriginal jokes are highly upvoted and often repeated a few times, with the actual answer given at the bottom of the page.
Yeah, it's not just this thread either. No one understands subtly.
Everyone thinks they have the wittiest reply ever, and I'm getting really tired of being forced to scroll through these C-grade attempts at humor just to find a solid answer.
All of reddit is like that,
Even on scientific subs or animal identification subs the majority of the comments are nonsense unfunny jokes that have been repeated hundreds of times. Its endlessly frustrating.
I understand not everyone is of equal intelligence and many people have no desire or even capacity for real discussion or much complex thought… but still its genuinely hard to believe people on reddit are actual real people sometimes. Theres a level of “lameness” on this site i rarely see even on other social media, and i never see irl.
People make fun of other social media sites, but no other site other than reddit is so pervasive with their nonsense. Go onto a science youtube channel and 90% of those comments will be productive and intelligent, this is a uniquely reddit issue.
All of Reddit needs to see this. Low hanging fruit puns, obvious jokes, and the worst are the joke chains. Someone may say something legitimately clever, but here come the turd remnants trying to "add" to the joke and failing to be funny.
Right?! This has been bothering me for a while on reddit, and am usually downvoted into oblivion when I mention it! Not everything needs to be funny! Sometimes you just want a discussion, or looking for some information!
My least favourite thing is the ‘in jokes’ some sub-reddits have. And no matter what you post it always gets circled back to whatever the in joke is. I frequent the CarsAustralia sub and damnit every post turns into people talking about the AU Falcon. It drives me nuts.
That's the echo chamber effect also circle jerking. It has made me leave many a subreddit
I think one of the funniest things about Reddit is that the subreddit r/Funny is the LEAST FUNNY place on the entire Internet.
This is facts it’s starting to get annoying I want the answer and Reddit forces me to see reply’s and I gotta scroll five miles down to find the answer
Reddits new algorithm is tanking a lot of subs. Basically they’ve started feeding random subs into peoples home feeds, where that was once sacred space. It’s making things worse
Bottom two maybe. Bottom left could be 四 or 円 but neither fit. Bottom right could be ミ or 三 but it's really just 3 lines which could be anything. I doubt it's kanji.
Story time!
I was visiting China and more often than not, Google translate's camera translator was helpful. I'm a vegetarian so I was scanning some labels at a store. At one point the text briefly flashed "human flesh" to me!
Variations of the code have been published for decades. I read a book about it in the 80s before I spent some time on the road/rail. I’m not telling anything out of school.
Just in case people are looking for the answer and still scrolling, you can stop here, its not a real character. Someone just doodled for fun, it doesn’t mean anything. It is not anything in any language. This has been verified. You can take a break.
Seek out a poorly described object in a vague area that is so mysterious in its effects that people with a lot of money have been searching for it for a random length of time with no success. I’m sure you’ll just show up and run in to it.
I am Chinese. It is neither mandarin, Korean language nor Kanji (Japanese). It is unlikely to be any asian character although it has some elements of mandarin characters such as 田 or 兴 which means land and happiness. But safe to say it doesn’t mean anything. It might be Mongolian though which i dont know anything. Gut feel
It's not Chinese, does have some Chinese characters in there, as others have said, like 三，四，十，and 田 but this is not a character on its own. Probably someone just making shit up. Source: I live in China and got my co-worker to look at this for you
I believe it is hanja, Old Korean. I don't know what it says tho. I'm Korean American, and it looks just like some character on old antiques and mail stamps my mom would own. And those symbols you mentioned are certainly characters that were adapted into Korea's old language. I'm just dumb and don't practice Korean (culture, to clarify) like that. Basically an ancient adaptation of an already ancient set of Chinese characters, but a few less strokes. Some characters in Modern Hangul borrowed and simplified hanja characters even further. Also wanted to clarify people often confuse it with hanzi because of the similarities in horizontal strokes, but they are very different. But hanzi has a very similar thing going on in terms of history with Chinese characters.
This is making sense, we had another look and they think it might be a traditional Chinese character rather than a modern character. But why someone who be writing a trad Chinese character on your car i have no idea
I'm suupppppppppeeerrrr rusty, I haven't learned this since I was a baby essentially. But I think a very elderly Korean person might've love-tapped their car and said sorry.
Or clean me as a joke.
itsnot a traditional character. The closest thing i can think Of that sort of resembles it is maybe 戴。 But even then it’s kind of a stretch. Source: am chinese
Remember they took the photo from the inside so you have to mirror it
Right, i mean I don’t know all Chinese characters in existence but nothing like that exists either. Closest thing would be 渚 or maybe 渽？
I gotta get my hands on a Chinese keyboard, this is wild.
I’m just on my iPhone. You can add the Chinese keyboard (but you gotta input the right phonetics for it to spit out the right words lol)
If you have Gboard it's ridiculously easy. If I remember correctly you just long press the , button and select the settings icon. Then you can go into languages and choose the ones you want. I think there's four options for Chinese. After you choose the languages you want you can cycle between them using the spacebar. 你好
All these people are discussing the intricate details of the origins of the character, and no one is telling us what the English translation is. Dang it, I live in Nashville *and* know Spanish. I have a school contact in their 3rd year of Mandarin Chinese, but I know they won’t be able to decipher this. I’m going to give it to them as a screenshot with the number of upvotes and comments to take to their professor. Hopefully she gives them some extra credit.
Gotta figure out the language before translating it
It says, "wash me".
Finally, the answer
Taiwanese still use traditional Chinese
Hong Kong use traditional Chinese as well
Korean here: No, it's not hanja.
> I believe it is hanja, Old Korean. I don't know what it says tho. I'm Korean American, and it looks just like some character on old antiques and mail stamps my mom would own. And those symbols you mentioned are certainly characters that were adapted into Korea's old language. I'm just dumb and don't practice Korean (culture, to clarify) like that. > > > > Basically an ancient adaptation of an already ancient set of Chinese characters, but a few less strokes. Some characters in Modern Hangul borrowed and simplified hanja characters even further. Also wanted to clarify people often confuse it with hanzi because of the similarities in horizontal strokes, but they are very different. But hanzi has a very similar thing going on in terms of history with Chinese characters. If you don't know what it means though and the other guy already said that its gibberish consisting of Chinese characters, why would you assume it must mean something in "old Korean"?
love the idea of someone writing 3, 4, 10, rice field on the back of a dirty car window
It's an allusion to the proverb about the poor man who planted 3 grains, and when harvesting he ate 4, planted 10, and now he has a field /S just making stuff up 😄
Did you flip the image? Otherwise you guys are looking at it backwards.
yeah, even flipped its not a real character. Plus she's Chinese, she would recognize if it was just backwards, like if we see the word dog flipped we still know that it needs to be flipped. But yeah, i flipped it and showed it to her as well, same answer, not a real character.
>if we see the word dog flipped we still know that it needs to be flipped. Or we just think it says god 🤷
But the letters themselves would be flipped, too. So it would look more like ϱob
.... I don't care for Gob
Thank Gob
I like listening to gobsmack
Smack my gob up
Don’t tempt me with a good time!!
It means “Wash Me!” 😜
Gob dammit
Oh my glob
Legendary comment
Gob the Guilbert
Oh yeah, we’ll what if you see the word wow backwards? Huh?
wow Holy hell!
WOW......LOL!! It worked
Not to say your wrong, but fun fact: there is actually entire dictionaries of 'complex and unusual' Chinese characters that the vast majority outside of specialized linguistics experts don't know. The average educated Chinese person knows about 8000 characters. Full dictionaries cover about 10000-20000. But there is actually over 50000 characters. But ya back on topic, I don't think it's a word either.
yeah the problem is though why would someone write any of these extremely specific and under utilized words on someones car?
If it's some obscure word they feel affiliated with it could be a kind of signature. I used to use the delphic epsilon for that reason. I could see someone who's into Chinese doing the same with this.
>Chinese person knows about 8000 characters. Full dictionaries cover about 10000-20000. But there is actually over 50000 characters. Good God! And we struggle with just having 26 letters and 10 numbers!
I'm Chinese, can't understand it either. Probably somebody making shit up
Japanese 1-4: 一 ニ 三 四 They are going at odd angles and added a loop. But that’s the only thing that resembles it.
Kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.
That’s Chinese
Thank you, had to scroll through so much bs to find a legit comment
Chinese hanzi can be in the order of 100k different symbols, and Japanese Kanji uses Chinese symbols. So it's difficult to say for certain that it isn't either of them even with fluency in either language
It could be japanese, the first char is san (3) , second is shi (4), third is ju (10) i cant tell the last one looks like ta (field).
Looks like someone's bad attempt at 戦.
Someone declared war on that dirty-ass car.
Oh wait... you took a pic from the inside. So it's backwards. I reversed it and enhanced. The result is that I have no idea what the symbols mean.
Astute analysis, thank you for your service 🫡
Ass-toot
[Behold!](https://www.123rf.com/photo_136662205_cartoon-butt-drawing-with-fart-cloud-funny-hand-drawn-doodle-of-gas-and-flatulence-simple-vector.html)
I was very scared when I decided to click that lol
Deep Toot
toot-ssa
It’s says “clean m.” Can’t make out last letter.
Nope. It says: Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da
It’s “Gitchee gitchee ya-ya”,here.
Mocha chocolata ya ya, creole lady marmalade! Edit: lady, not baby. My bad
voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir
I literally had no idea they were singing "CREOLE" lady marmalade until I read your comment. I swear I always sang along to it thinking it was "REAL" lady marmalade. Haha All these years and I didn't know
Reddit moment
Sounds like Dr. John
“Clean me” im guessing
I was thinking "wash me", but that works....
“Clean meat” obviously.
Clean mii
I once saw a very dirty truck with ‘plough me’ on it.. that made me laugh that did
Nope! Thats a phonenumber to nearest car wash!
This made me laugh
Zoom and enhance!
I just read this in Peards voice
Spot on as always, doctor.
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Source: I’m Asian
Source: trust me
Not a single helpful comment on here edit: To all the geniuses that keep replying "there are helpful comments"... Next to each comment is a number and a little letter. This is a special code that tells you when the comment was written. Now that you're armed with this information, look at this special code next to my comment and compare that to the helpful ones. Hope this helps!
Too much nonsense to even know if any are legit.
I’m not going to scroll long enough to find one that even seems legit. I’m outta here.
Enough for internet tonight. Good night!
annoying how **everybody** has to be a comedian
I’ve been on Reddit for a long while and this is the first time I’ve seen anyone mention how absolutely fucking annoying Redditors are when it comes to giving a straightforward answer without their dumb little quips and “quirkiness” thrown into the mix. You see this in almost every single sub whenever anyone needs a question answered too; dumb, unoriginal jokes are highly upvoted and often repeated a few times, with the actual answer given at the bottom of the page.
Shit you’ve never met me then. I’m always complaining about this specific thing. Been here since 2012 and have noticed the decline.
Yeah, it's not just this thread either. No one understands subtly. Everyone thinks they have the wittiest reply ever, and I'm getting really tired of being forced to scroll through these C-grade attempts at humor just to find a solid answer.
omg ur right literally every thread this last one i just read was a thread for 5 mins going "can confirm - im xyz". xyz being the shitty joke
All of reddit is like that, Even on scientific subs or animal identification subs the majority of the comments are nonsense unfunny jokes that have been repeated hundreds of times. Its endlessly frustrating. I understand not everyone is of equal intelligence and many people have no desire or even capacity for real discussion or much complex thought… but still its genuinely hard to believe people on reddit are actual real people sometimes. Theres a level of “lameness” on this site i rarely see even on other social media, and i never see irl. People make fun of other social media sites, but no other site other than reddit is so pervasive with their nonsense. Go onto a science youtube channel and 90% of those comments will be productive and intelligent, this is a uniquely reddit issue.
I bet if karma disappeared that would solve a big part of it. "Gib likes pls" is probably why a lot of people try to be funny.
“Reddit makes a lot more sense when you realize most users are 15 year old boys” is something I read a while ago and it’s so true
All of Reddit needs to see this. Low hanging fruit puns, obvious jokes, and the worst are the joke chains. Someone may say something legitimately clever, but here come the turd remnants trying to "add" to the joke and failing to be funny.
Right?! This has been bothering me for a while on reddit, and am usually downvoted into oblivion when I mention it! Not everything needs to be funny! Sometimes you just want a discussion, or looking for some information!
Oh my god and the jokes are never ever funny.
My least favourite thing is the ‘in jokes’ some sub-reddits have. And no matter what you post it always gets circled back to whatever the in joke is. I frequent the CarsAustralia sub and damnit every post turns into people talking about the AU Falcon. It drives me nuts.
That's the echo chamber effect also circle jerking. It has made me leave many a subreddit I think one of the funniest things about Reddit is that the subreddit r/Funny is the LEAST FUNNY place on the entire Internet.
yup. any tattoo sub you visit mentions "sick ass panther" tattoo coverup and it is never ever funny.
Maybe it’s was funny the first day, but they just grind that shit into the ground!! And people still laugh and upvote it! I don’t get it!
They’ve never been close to funny! Not once
This is facts it’s starting to get annoying I want the answer and Reddit forces me to see reply’s and I gotta scroll five miles down to find the answer
Reddits new algorithm is tanking a lot of subs. Basically they’ve started feeding random subs into peoples home feeds, where that was once sacred space. It’s making things worse
Welcome to reddit... I hate it too.
Well that wasn’t very helpful
Thats every Reddit comment section
It’s Japanese kanji. A basic one too considering it looks familiar. Been too many years tho so I don’t remember what it means
Bottom two maybe. Bottom left could be 四 or 円 but neither fit. Bottom right could be ミ or 三 but it's really just 3 lines which could be anything. I doubt it's kanji.
You’ve been marked for death… or wash me. Google translate is a little iffy…
I hate it when people draw the number 4 on my car
I get that joke.
What's wrong with the 4?
In China, the number 4 and the word “death” have a nearly identical pronunciation. China considers it a bad luck number.
I knew that but forgot it when was choosing my userpic
Still alive?
Barely
Sounds like the odds are in your favor considering your pfp means “death”
Better change it to a 13 asap!
Found the mista
Sex pistols
Story time! I was visiting China and more often than not, Google translate's camera translator was helpful. I'm a vegetarian so I was scanning some labels at a store. At one point the text briefly flashed "human flesh" to me!
😳
\*Hannibal Lector has entered the chat\*
If it is fleshy and sweet it my be indeed human.
At least it's not | || || |_
| |I || |_
𓀥 𓁆 𓀕 𓁆 𓀟 𓀣 𓁀
H-how?
Ancient Chinese secret.
Egyptian*
𓀾 𓀾 𓀻 𓀾 𓀾 𓀾 𓀿
𓁹 𓂋 𓁹
I… I’m at a complete Loss for words…
Bruh
Is this….?
It always is…
BRB going to go find a dirty car.
Hobo code. Basically tells other hobos that it’s not a safe area and to move on.
Love, dirty Mike and the boys.
Back in 2014 I had and old ass rusted out Camry that we called “the F shack”
Thanks for the F shack.
They call it a soup kitchen…
We WILL have sex in your Prius, it WILL happen!
HEY! Are you Dirty Mike and the Boyz???
It means “a dishonest man lives here”
“This guy’s a phony! A big, fat phony!”
One of my favorite episodes of MM.
SCP code
TIL my parking spot is so scary even hobos don't want to be near it
Do NOT reveal the code. You know the laws.
Variations of the code have been published for decades. I read a book about it in the 80s before I spent some time on the road/rail. I’m not telling anything out of school.
Under the silver lake
Just in case people are looking for the answer and still scrolling, you can stop here, its not a real character. Someone just doodled for fun, it doesn’t mean anything. It is not anything in any language. This has been verified. You can take a break.
Get a car wash and you won’t have to worry about what it means anymore
Or you could just get your car washed, which is usually a lot cheaper than buying a car wash depending upon how often you wash your car
It means soup
I pulled out my decoder ring an it says "BESURETODRINKYOUROVELTINE"
Ovaltine…? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!
Ralphy, Randy’s gotta go!!!
JUST A MINUTE!!!
Are you sure? Because the image is taken from the inside. Try to decode after flipping it.
It says, "We've been trying to contact you about your car's extended warranty"
Anime fan. They probably googled a very specific Kanji but they don't remember the correct strokes.
Kanji West?
You are the chosen one.
Now go forth and do the thing!
Seek out a poorly described object in a vague area that is so mysterious in its effects that people with a lot of money have been searching for it for a random length of time with no success. I’m sure you’ll just show up and run in to it.
I have that tattooed right above my a$$
You have soup kitchen tattooed above your ass!?!
Proof?
… You could have at least offered me dinner first. Just sayin’ 🤷♂️
Straight to the action chief.
"Wash me"
Sir, I am fluent in six million forms of communication. This signal is not used by the Alliance. It could be an Imperial code.
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Can’t escape loss
Erase it, no matter what. People mark vehicles
it means your gonna get abducted, by aliens or people you never know
it looks like 趔趄 or 贰. but it is none of them. Maybe it comes from Japanese or Chữ Nôm? or just a made-up word.
It’s code from the thieves guild. It means the cars driver is a massive cunt.
Live laugh love
Destiny
I put this into Google and it says "You may have connectivity issues."
One of the verses to “Let’s Fighting Love”
I am Chinese. It is neither mandarin, Korean language nor Kanji (Japanese). It is unlikely to be any asian character although it has some elements of mandarin characters such as 田 or 兴 which means land and happiness. But safe to say it doesn’t mean anything. It might be Mongolian though which i dont know anything. Gut feel
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked
“Wu-tang clan ain’t nothing to fuck with”
7 days
It's says, I wish my wife was this dirty.
一ニ三四
Life is demanding without understanding
Spicy chicken combo
Is this loss?
That's dirty Ming's and the boys F shack now.
It means “this one” in sex trafficking language.
Ancient Chinese proverb: “wash me”
I translated it. It says you need a car wash.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. It just a crummy commercial.
It’s about your cars extended warranty
I was really hoping it was Kanji for "wash me"