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Anyone take a crack at the underside characters on the counterfeit chip?

bigbillheck 3y ago
I was wondering if it could be Devanagari or something similar based on that strong horizontal line.
jstanley 3y ago
I tried drawing it in https://www.qhanzi.com/ https://www.qhanzi.com/ and it looks a bit like 防 which apparently means "defend". Or maybe more like 阮 which means "Ruan" (maybe that's a person's name?).
- dmurray 3y ago
  Checked with a Chinese native speaker who also thinks it's 阮.
  - LinuxJedi 3y ago
    Ah! Thanks. I tried several different visual search methods whilst writing those post but was coming up blank.
  - libreliu 3y ago
    I think it goes to "贤". As a native speaker I think "阮"'s possible but unlikely, since most people will write the "阝" part more straight.
    - bewaretheirs 3y ago
      I don't know Chinese but Google translate says "贤" means "virtuous", "worthy", or "able". Is that word plausibly used to refer to devices to mean "it works" or "it passes tests"?
      - mook 3y ago
        It's more likely to be the name of the QA person that checked it. Writing a literal "OK" is so much easier if they just wanted it mark it as good otherwise.
pringk02 3y ago
I'm stumped. I've never been good with handwritten Chinese, but even rotating it I can't match it to any valid character. The closest I got was 阹 which means "to surround"
- otteromkram 3y ago
  Did you try viewing it in a mirror? Sometimes that helps.
netruk44 3y ago
I thought I'd check with GPT-4 vision preview just to see what it could make of the character. Unfortunately, it couldn't figure it out. > The logographic character you're referring to appears to be a Chinese character, but it's not clearly written which makes it difficult to identify with certainty. (There was more to the response, but it was more about why the character might be written there)
- LinuxJedi 3y ago
  Yea, I tried a couple of AIs on it whilst writing that post and didn't get anywhere. It does look like elsewhere in the comments here people have maybe figured it out though.
libreliu 3y ago
As a native speaker I think its "贤", just rotated right by 90 degree.
- LinuxJedi 3y ago
  Many thanks, I'll update the post later tonight with the findings from the comments here.
- nneonneo 3y ago
  Yes, I agree. Looks exactly like 贤. The irony is that this character means “virtuous, worthy, good; able”, but you’ve received a rather un-virtuous counterfeit chip.

I was wondering if it could be Devanagari or something similar based on that strong horizontal line.

I tried drawing it in https://www.qhanzi.com/ https://www.qhanzi.com/ and it looks a bit like 防 which apparently means "defend". Or maybe more like 阮 which means "Ruan" (maybe that's a person's name?).

dmurray 3y ago
Checked with a Chinese native speaker who also thinks it's 阮.
- LinuxJedi 3y ago
  Ah! Thanks. I tried several different visual search methods whilst writing those post but was coming up blank.
- libreliu 3y ago
  I think it goes to "贤". As a native speaker I think "阮"'s possible but unlikely, since most people will write the "阝" part more straight.
  - bewaretheirs 3y ago
    I don't know Chinese but Google translate says "贤" means "virtuous", "worthy", or "able". Is that word plausibly used to refer to devices to mean "it works" or "it passes tests"?
    - mook 3y ago
      It's more likely to be the name of the QA person that checked it. Writing a literal "OK" is so much easier if they just wanted it mark it as good otherwise.

pringk02 3y ago

I'm stumped. I've never been good with handwritten Chinese, but even rotating it I can't match it to any valid character. The closest I got was 阹 which means "to surround"

otteromkram 3y ago
Did you try viewing it in a mirror? Sometimes that helps.

netruk44 3y ago

I thought I'd check with GPT-4 vision preview just to see what it could make of the character. Unfortunately, it couldn't figure it out. > The logographic character you're referring to appears to be a Chinese character, but it's not clearly written which makes it difficult to identify with certainty. (There was more to the response, but it was more about why the character might be written there)

LinuxJedi 3y ago
Yea, I tried a couple of AIs on it whilst writing that post and didn't get anywhere. It does look like elsewhere in the comments here people have maybe figured it out though.

libreliu 3y ago

As a native speaker I think its "贤", just rotated right by 90 degree.

LinuxJedi 3y ago
Many thanks, I'll update the post later tonight with the findings from the comments here.
nneonneo 3y ago
Yes, I agree. Looks exactly like 贤. The irony is that this character means “virtuous, worthy, good; able”, but you’ve received a rather un-virtuous counterfeit chip.