Chinese symbol needed

[dorayme]

I want to get a reasonable image of a Chinese writing fragment that
suggests "shade from the sun", "cool shelter from the summer sun".
Appreciate any leads. The quality does not matter so much since I can
redraw the thing or alter it to suit, but it would be nice if it was of
some size and quality.

 

[richard]

I want to get a reasonable image of a Chinese writing fragment that
suggests "shade from the sun", "cool shelter from the summer sun".
Appreciate any leads. The quality does not matter so much since I can
redraw the thing or alter it to suit, but it would be nice if it was of
some size and quality.

Suggest you take a little walk through sydney's chinatown and ask
around.

 

[dorayme]

Suggest you take a little walk through sydney's chinatown and ask
around.

How about you do this, I'm busy. Don't forget to get back to me with
information. Have a yum cha while down there.

 

[rf]

I want to get a reasonable image of a Chinese writing fragment that
suggests "shade from the sun", "cool shelter from the summer sun".
Appreciate any leads. The quality does not matter so much since I can
redraw the thing or alter it to suit, but it would be nice if it was
of some size and quality.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ ?

Plug it into your favourite font. If you don't have one:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chinese+font

 

[Nik Coughlin]

Yes, I have been seeing things like this, but thanks. This is not a bad
one, I will bookmark it.

Google translate seems to be doing a much better job these days.

 

[dorayme]

You could use U+9670. It means "shade", "negative", "female" and is the
yin in yin and yang, as opposed to U+967D, which means "sun", "positive"
and "male.

Sheltering from the summer sun is an archetypal example of a good
balance between these two elements, so U+9670 should suggest the idea.

But it also means, "dark", "secret", including in the sense of
"pudenda", so be careful as you may create embarrassment depending on
context.

I do need to be careful. Perhaps I will consider some other imagery for
the job in hand, not involving language. Am still considering.

When I worked in what is now China, the restaurants I would go to always
understood my order for "Chicken fried rice". Damn good meal, but I
thought maybe I should have something else for a change one night. So I
asked one of my all Chinese staff. I had eaten with them and they knew I
had liked something else they had ordered once. So I thought it was
understood that this is what I would like to order when I was eating
alone some time. He got to together with the others in what I was
supposing was a consultation of how to describe or write what I meant,
and finally wrote something down.

Armed with this piece of writing, I confidently produced it at my
favourite all-Chinese patroned cafe (nowhere near any tourist areas).
The boss was called and smiled and nodded. I was a regular and I thought
all would be well. What came was stuff like bird feet and entrails.
Actually it was not bad but definitely *not* what I had in mind! "Good
one guys!", I thought.

Just type 陰 into an HTML page and display it in a browser with
the font size you need. Then take a screenshot.

With such as p {font-size: 50em; margin-top: 0;} I can get close enough
to the quality I need too. Excellent. Thanks.

Regarding that character though, I need to check that the reference to
Ben C (not the meaning) is different to that of the guy who made me
order bird feet and stuff <g>

 

[richard]

I do need to be careful. Perhaps I will consider some other imagery for
the job in hand, not involving language. Am still considering.

When I worked in what is now China, the restaurants I would go to always
understood my order for "Chicken fried rice". Damn good meal, but I
thought maybe I should have something else for a change one night. So I
asked one of my all Chinese staff. I had eaten with them and they knew I
had liked something else they had ordered once. So I thought it was
understood that this is what I would like to order when I was eating
alone some time. He got to together with the others in what I was
supposing was a consultation of how to describe or write what I meant,
and finally wrote something down.

Armed with this piece of writing, I confidently produced it at my
favourite all-Chinese patroned cafe (nowhere near any tourist areas).
The boss was called and smiled and nodded. I was a regular and I thought
all would be well. What came was stuff like bird feet and entrails.
Actually it was not bad but definitely *not* what I had in mind! "Good
one guys!", I thought.



With such as p {font-size: 50em; margin-top: 0;} I can get close enough
to the quality I need too. Excellent. Thanks.

Regarding that character though, I need to check that the reference to
Ben C (not the meaning) is different to that of the guy who made me
order bird feet and stuff <g>

Just for kicks, I did a quick program using run basic and had it print
out the various characters from &#9000 up to about &#14000 or so and
got some very interesting results. With probably about 2,000 chinese
characters in that range.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Just for kicks, I did a quick program using run basic and had it print
out the various characters from &#9000 up to about &#14000 or so and
got some very interesting results. With probably about 2,000 chinese
characters in that range.

How many lines did it take in run basic?

With PHP, it's just two:

$i = range('9000', '14000' );
foreach($i as $j) print "&#$j; ";

 

[dorayme]

Just for kicks, I did a quick program using run basic and had it print
out the various characters from &#9000 up to about &#14000 or so and
got some very interesting results. With probably about 2,000 chinese
characters in that range.

Get a blinfold and pretend you are going to play "Pin the tail on the
donkey" and approach a print out of your program and choose a character
for me.

 

[richard]

How many lines did it take in run basic?

With PHP, it's just two:

$i = range('9000', '14000' );
foreach($i as $j) print "&#$j; ";

for n=9000 to 14000:a$="&#"+str$(n):html a$:next n

the 'html' tells runbasic to treat the code as html.
Print a$ would show &#9000.

I included a couple of other things just to dress it up a little.

 

[dorayme]

for n=9000 to 14000:a$="&#"+str$(n):html a$:next n

the 'html' tells runbasic to treat the code as html.
Print a$ would show &#9000.

I included a couple of other things just to dress it up a little.

In the R corner is R and in the B corner is B, I watch but can't see who
won?

 

[Ari Heino]

dorayme kirjoitti seuraavasti:

In the R corner is R and in the B corner is B, I watch but can't see who
won?

Number of "lines" in programming is questionable. It might be a better
idea to count the number of statements (or instructions, how do you call
them). Richard's one-liner looks like a 4-liner, if ':' means a linebreak.

 

[Johannes Hafner]

dorayme kirjoitti seuraavasti:

Number of "lines" in programming is questionable. It might be a better
idea to count the number of statements (or instructions, how do you call
them). Richard's one-liner looks like a 4-liner, if ':' means a linebreak.

And the PHP-two-liner actually is a three-liner if you would break
behind the foreach-statement.

 

[richard]

dorayme kirjoitti seuraavasti:

Number of "lines" in programming is questionable. It might be a better
idea to count the number of statements (or instructions, how do you call
them). Richard's one-liner looks like a 4-liner, if ':' means a linebreak.

In Basic the : acts as a command seperator rather than a traditional
linebreak.
In ancient Basic line numbers were mandatory so this method helped to
combine lines where needed.

 

[richard]

Get a blinfold and pretend you are going to play "Pin the tail on the
donkey" and approach a print out of your program and choose a character
for me.

Your prize is a white square with the letter X in bold.
Print out.
Place paper on desk. Place forehead directly on the X.
Raise head and repeatedly perform the process for one hour as rapidly
as possible.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

dorayme kirjoitti seuraavasti:

Number of "lines" in programming is questionable. It might be a better
idea to count the number of statements (or instructions, how do you call
them). Richard's one-liner looks like a 4-liner, if ':' means a linebreak.

Okay a one-liner.

echo '&#' . join('; &#', range('9000', '14000' )) . ';';

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

In Basic the : acts as a command seperator rather than a traditional
linebreak.
In ancient Basic line numbers were mandatory so this method helped to
combine lines where needed.

Hello Captain Obvious! Most languages allow you gang multiple
*statements* on one line with a statement separator. The point was the
the number of statements required to preform the function.

 

[richard]

Okay a one-liner.

echo '&#' . join('; &#', range('9000', '14000' )) . ';';

Well so much for BTS's knowledge of php eh?

 

[richard]

Hello Captain Obvious! Most languages allow you gang multiple
*statements* on one line with a statement separator. The point was the
the number of statements required to preform the function.

wahhhhhhhhhhhh!
one fucking command different.
But technically, a for/next loop is one command.

 

[nice.guy.nige]

While the city slept, Johannes Hafner feverishly typed:

And the PHP-two-liner actually is a three-liner if you would break
behind the foreach-statement.

And, of course, the foreach block should really be in braces, so it would
then be 5. Although you would get it down to 4 by using

for($i=9000; $i<=14000; $i++)
{
print "&#$1";
}

And then there should probably be some comments... ;-)

Cheers,
Nige