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    Jun 21, 2007 - who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #1

    I'm looking at one of Jayne's shirts and trying to figure out the text...

    Can anyone:

    a) read this
    b) point me at some way to get those characters into illustrator (a typeface, a web site with collections of characters, etc...)

    I want to try to recreate this shirt, but don't want to mess up the wording by guessing at what things sorta look like.

    these are the best shots of it i've been able to find...

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    Jun 21, 2007 - Re: who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #2

    Temponaut may be able to help you.
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    Jun 21, 2007 - Re: who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #3

    cool. i sent off a PM to temponaut

    thanks!
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    Jun 21, 2007 - Re: who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #4

    Check out THIS website. There is an image of Jayne's shirt phrases partway down. Looks like this particular one translates to, "philanthropic service organization."
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    Jun 21, 2007 - Re: who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #5

    I just had someone translate it here at work.

    She said it basicly means "goodwill service orginization"

    She said the first part means to do something without the expectaion of pay.
    The second part is service.

    The third part is orginization or group.

    Hope that helps, Ben
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    Jun 21, 2007 - Re: who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #6

    Entropy said: View Post
    Check out THIS website. There is an image of Jayne's shirt phrases partway down. Looks like this particular one translates to, "philanthropic service organization."

    perfect! there's a nice image of the characters, so i should be able to do a decent job reproducing them.
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    Jun 22, 2007 - Re: who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #7

    Darthmagpie said: View Post
    I just had someone translate it here at work.
    She said it basicly means "goodwill service orginization"
    She said the first part means to do something without the expectaion of pay.
    The second part is service.
    The third part is orginization or group.
    Hope that helps, Ben
    LOL... cool... so very contradictory to Jayne's character!
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    Jun 22, 2007 - Re: who can read chinese? (Firefly/Serenity related) #8

    And herein lies the sarcasm and irony

    NoHumorMan said: View Post
    LOL... cool... so very contradictory to Jayne's character!
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