Anyone know Chinese?

billiam23 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:05 pm **Posts:** 2

I bought this awesome Fender shirt a few days back, the 'Hollywood High' one and it has some chinese characters across the front:

Anyone know what this says? I can make a few guesses, but it bugs me that I really have no idea. After living overseas for some time, I've seen a number of hilarious shirts with bad english. Hoping this isn't the same deal just with Chinese.

Solid Body Love Songs · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:22 am

billiam23 wrote:

I bought this awesome Fender shirt a few days back, the 'Hollywood High' one and it has some chinese characters across the front:

Anyone know what this says? I can make a few guesses, but it bugs me that I really have no idea. After living overseas for some time, I've seen a number of hilarious shirts with bad english. Hoping this isn't the same deal just with Chinese.

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

billiam23 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:05 pm **Posts:** 2

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

russianracehorse · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:16 am

billiam23 wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

You know, when I first saw it, I thought that's what it said, but I stayed quiet because I can't read Chinese. However, I have been to Tokyo enough to recognize that 東京 is Kanji for Tokyo. A quick Wikipedia search confirms that 日本 is indeed Nihon (Japan).

Japanese has three writing systems depending on the origin of a given word. The older words are rendered in Chinese characters known as Kanji. This is an ideographic system, the name of which literally means "Han characters." Literary Korean also uses Chinese characters, by the way. Japanese, Chinese and Koreans can all read this system of writing, but the words will be pronounced differently in each of the languages.

Japanese also uses two different syllabary systems: Hiragana for native Japanese words and Katakana for words borrowed from foreign languages. I was once reasonably competent at reading Katakana, but I haven't been to Japan in about five years, so I'm definitely rusty.

So I'm guessing what you have there is a Fender Japan t-shirt. How about posting a shot of yourself modeling the garment in question?

Domo arigato!

Sorry to get all language-nerdy, but I love this stuff. :oops:

bowlfreshener · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:59 am

billiam23 wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

I'm Asian, just not Chinese, but lately I have had the urge to ask non-Asian people who have Asian words/characters/symbols tattooed on them what they mean...then after they tell I want to say,"I guess it can mean that/be translated into that too.", just to scare the crap out of them...
:lol:

Floyd_The_Barber · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:52 am

bowlfreshener wrote:

billiam23 wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

I'm Asian, just not Chinese, but lately I have had the urge to ask non-Asian people who have Asian words/characters/symbols tattooed on them what they mean...then after they tell I want to say,"I guess it can mean that/be translated into that too.", just to scare the crap out of them...
:lol:

that would be great :lol:

stratoBobster · **Joined:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:21 am **Posts:** 959

bowlfreshener wrote:

billiam23 wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

I'm Asian, just not Chinese, but lately I have had the urge to ask non-Asian people who have Asian words/characters/symbols tattooed on them what they mean...then after they tell I want to say,"I guess it can mean that/be translated into that too.", just to scare the crap out of them...
:lol:

I was going to tell him it said "I sleep with men." before russianracehorse gave a straight answer. :lol:

russianracehorse · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:04 am

stratoBobster wrote:

I was going to tell him it said "I sleep with men." before russianracehorse gave a straight answer. :lol:

As John Lennon said, "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)." :oops:

stratoBobster · **Joined:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:21 am **Posts:** 959

russianracehorse wrote:

stratoBobster wrote:

I was going to tell him it said "I sleep with men." before russianracehorse gave a straight answer. :lol:

As John Lennon said, "Aisumasen (I'm Sorry)." :oops:

Please don't be, pal.

I was just revisiting my frequent idenity as a half-funny jerk. :oops:

BTW: My wife's brother is a linguist. He has lived in Japan for many years and has a Japanese wife.

cvilleira · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:18 pm

bowlfreshener wrote:

billiam23 wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

I'm Asian, just not Chinese, but lately I have had the urge to ask non-Asian people who have Asian words/characters/symbols tattooed on them what they mean...then after they tell I want to say,"I guess it can mean that/be translated into that too.", just to scare the crap out of them...
:lol:

As long as they are not wearing there 1% other wise that would not be a good idea.

bowlfreshener · **Posted:** Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:02 am

cvilleira wrote:

bowlfreshener wrote:

billiam23 wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

I'm Asian, just not Chinese, but lately I have had the urge to ask non-Asian people who have Asian words/characters/symbols tattooed on them what they mean...then after they tell I want to say,"I guess it can mean that/be translated into that too.", just to scare the crap out of them...
:lol:

As long as they are not wearing there 1% other wise that would not be a good idea.

I have been around enough bikers and drunk hillbillies to know who to joke around with, and who not to...

hbar · **Joined:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:39 pm **Posts:** 2

So what is the chinese word for "Fender" ?

radio_friendly_unit_shifter · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:28 pm

billiam23 wrote:

Solid Body Love Songs wrote:

Welcome to the Forum billiam23, cool 1st post, I do not speak Chinese but good luck finding out what this awesome Fender shirt that has some chinese characters across the front says? let us know too.

Thanks!

I have a Chinese friend that helped me out. It says: Tokyo Japan. In chinese letters! How ironic is that? Could have been worse, though.

I guess I kind of like the irony in it.

Hi welcome to the forum man!

I have a friend who claims he can speak and read chinese, I dont believe him though

NonniG · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:11 pm

hbar wrote:

So what is the chinese word for "Fender" ?

It is "Fender" :lol:

Just me being a smart[behind]

russianracehorse · **Posted:** Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:10 pm

hbar wrote:

So what is the chinese word for "Fender" ?

Hi hbar, and welcome to the forum!

This writing is Japanese, and Fender is フェンダー (Fendaa).

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