Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with japanese and characters Questions tagged with 'japanese' and 'characters' at Ask MetaFilter. Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:56:00 -0800 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:56:00 -0800 en-us 60 english, please... Could you read some Japanese (or possibly Chinese?) characters for me? All I know about these books is in the picture linked below. I think they have something to do with art or architecture. I think the characters are Japanese. I obviously don't read Japanese or Chinese. Can you tell me what the characters on the spines say? Thanks!<br> <br>,2012:site.221284 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:56:00 -0800 characters Japanese writing crazylegs "Eat a bag of dicks" on my principal's back? Please? Do you know Japanese? Do you <em>not</em> know Japanese? What does <a href="">my shirt</a> say? (p.s. It's likely not Japanese.) Many years ago, when I was in first or second grade, one of the upper grades in my (PK-12) school put on fundraiser. One of the boys in the class (I'm guessing he was a junior, since they do the most fundraisers for prom, not that it really matters) drew up a neat little design, and they sold t-shirts to the rest of the school. <br> <br> Since one of the "big kids" had made them, they were the coolest things ever, so everyone in my class got one. I got one. Pretty much everyone in the entire school got one. Even the admins.<br> <br> I have long hoped (pretty much from the day I got it) that the shirt secretly says something obscene, and that this kid got a kick out of seeing everyone at this conservative little private school walking around with something horribly offensive plastered on their back. I really hope that's true. <br> <br> Unfortunately, it's probably just gibberish.<br> <br> So...any ideas?,2011:site.182460 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:28:50 -0800 characters japanese language logo shirt symbols translation tshirt phunniemee Translation help? What is my new used bike from the '70s is trying to tell me (translation help please)? <a href="">Picture here</a> of the characters.,2010:site.160471 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:37:59 -0800 characters chinese japanese resolved translation ztdavis Please help me sort my vocabulary list in Excel! Complicated Excel formula question involving text-search and Japanese characters. Can you help? I have two spreadsheets. <br> <br> <a href="">Spreadsheet A</a> contains a list of Japanese vocabulary words I need to learn for the JLPT this year. <a href="">Spreadsheet B</a> contains a list of Japanese characters in one column along with the characters "Heisig number" (an ordinal number indicating where that character appears in the book "Remembering The Kanji" by James Heisig).<br> <br> I want to add a column to Spreadsheet A that will contain the highest Heisig number among the characters that make up the vocabulary word. The purpose of this is to sort the words in Spreadsheet A so that I can memorize only the words that can be written using the Kanji I've learned so far.<br> <br> Confused? Here's an example: Spreadsheet A, cell 57A contains the word "朝寝坊". Using Spreadsheet B to looking up the 3 characters in that word, I find the Heisig number for 朝 is 52, 寝 is 1150, and 坊 is 492. 1150 is the highest of those 3 numbers, so I'd like Spreadsheet A, cell 57B to read "1150". Is there a way to set up a formula to do this? I've never pushed Excel this far before.<br> <br> Thank you in advance, Hive Mind!,2008:site.92509 Tue, 27 May 2008 13:34:08 -0800 characters excel formula formulas heisig japanese jlpt search vocabulary Vorteks Quick and dirty translation? What does the Japanese writing on <a href="">these</a> <a href="">two</a> packages mean (in English)?,2006:site.32285 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:21:27 -0800 buddha characters english japanese translation onshi