Walter Montego: no i dont have a link to the picture but anybody who is curious feel free to pm me your email addy and i will send it to you. its just characters on the picture and no author name as it was bought from a large D.I.Y store where hundreds of them were there and i just bought it to fill a blank space on my wall as i liked the style of it and it tied in well with my colour scheme

this was the translation he gave me - at least i can tell anyone who asks what it means now


The large character in the red circle
The calligraphy of this character is a little unusual. Usually characters in good Chinese calligraphy are supposed to fit inside a square. I looked through the different databases because the character was hard to find. The closes I could come up with was:
有, yǒu, to have, to possess (complex pictograph of a right hand grasping the abundance of the moon)

The white characters inside the circle
土, tǔ, earth, soil (pictograph of an object rising through the earth)
水, shuǐ, water, river (pictograph of streams flowing together)
木, mù, tree, wood (pictograph of a tree)
食, Shí, food, eat (complex pictograph containing the pictographs for gather, rice and spoon)

The red characters in the vertical stamp
The only unusual character was the second one from the top. That character seems to be the pictograph for fire.
木, mù, tree, wood (pictograph of a tree)
火, huǒ, fire (pictograph of rising flames)
水, shuǐ, water, river (pictograph of streams flowing together)
食, Shí, food, eat (complex pictograph containing the pictographs for gather, rice and spoon)

thank you Walter and Pedro - i have received a message from phatplayer and have emailed him the pics - i will keep you informed what they say when he gets back to me.

Thank you both for your help in this matter.

Fiona

Hi, i am just wondering if anybody can translate chinese as when i decorated my lounge i found some nice wall-art which has symbols on it and i have always wondered what it says or means. If anybody can help please can you pm me your email address and i will email the pics of the art i am on about

Hope somebody can help me

thanks
Fiona

Lamby: its ok - thank you loads for trying - hopefully somebody who can read chinese will come on here and offer to help

Lamby: thank you for that but after staring at 100s of symbols i still cant find the ones on my picture lol

Hi, i am just wondering if anybody can translate chinese (or japanese as not sure which it is) as when i decorated my lounge i found some nice wall-art which has symbols on it and i have always wondered what it says or means. If anybody can help please can you pm me your email address and i will email the pics of the art i am on about

Hope somebody can help me

thanks
Fiona