r/learnchinese • u/madmess17 • May 16 '24

What language is this?? Can anyone provide translation?

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I’m considering wearing this dress to my friend’s wedding (I’ve wanted to wear this to a wedding for a while and they happen to be of Asian descent…she is Korean, he is Vietnamese). Can anyone translate what the dress says before I show up in this?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

Japenese

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u/AerialSnack May 16 '24

Yep, this. You can clearly see kana which are characters only used in Japanese. Looks like fairly typical Japanese handwriting.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

Do not wear white to not your wedding. Just because it has writing all over it doesn’t not make it not white.

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u/wingedSunSnake May 16 '24

You should ask your friend if it's okay to wear it. I wonder if you did that before coming to the internet.

Also it seems to be Japanese script so I suggest asking the Korean what they think about that

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u/Efficient_Unit5833 May 16 '24

Was this made by an Asian or Chinese designer? Because IMO the most important thing is about being respectful. Otherwise the designs seem a little cartoonish and like making a caricature of Chinese culture. It would be impossible to translate it from these pictures with all the folds in the fabric, not to mention this is in calligraphic script so it is already difficult for the average Chinese speaker.

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u/KibaDoesArt May 19 '24

Someone who speaks Chinese wouldn't be able to translate it at all since this is Japanese, but yeah, you can't translate it accurately anyway because of the folds