Need help with Chu nom characters

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Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby BongSau » 2015-04-24, 2:48

Hello everyone

I'm glad there are forums and communities like this, as i need help with designing a logo that has to do with vietnamese Chu Nom characters and im not sure if the characters i used actually have any coherent meaning when they are combined like this. The order could be totally wrong, or maybe even the combination of these 2 words.

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The logo i posted here is not the final one, im gonna carve it and use it as an ink stamp for business cards.
The 1st character means "to see/to feel" and the 2nd one means "the way".
The meaning i want to convey is "the way to see/ to feel"
Maybe i should have them in a different order, maybe not, but i like the way they are right now.

I'm fully aware this is a very specific and difficult matter for most people but i need all the help i can get


My source for the characters is chunom.org

Any help would be appreciated.

Have a great day y'all

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby Pangu » 2015-04-25, 5:31

The best thing to do is to find the existing word of what you're trying to say in Vietnamese, then look up the Chu Nom with Quoc Ngu at http://nomfoundation.org/nom-tools/Nom-Lookup-Tool. At the end of the day, Chu Nom is just a script to write Vietnamese, not a language on its own.

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby Tenebrarum » 2015-04-25, 18:58

Can't help you with the characters (or even the content), but based on what you say they're supposed to mean, I can tell that's a Chinese word order. Switch them around for Vietnamese, or at least something resembling it.
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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby BongSau » 2015-04-27, 20:46

I really appreciate all the help, you've helped me save quite some time :-)

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby BongSau » 2015-07-26, 16:30

So, regarding the research on the logo I have concluded that these characters are apropriate for the meaning i want to express which is "the method/way/path" and "to see/observe/perceive"

Can't be 100% sure if this is he best way to go, but i have done my best. Now the problem is the order in which they will appear.
Any opinions?




http://nomfoundation.org/common/nom_det ... 898b&img=1
http://nomfoundation.org/common/nom_det ... 9053&img=1

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby Pangu » 2015-07-26, 23:48

BongSau wrote:So, regarding the research on the logo I have concluded that these characters are apropriate for the meaning i want to express which is "the method/way/path" and "to see/observe/perceive"

Can't be 100% sure if this is he best way to go, but i have done my best. Now the problem is the order in which they will appear.
Any opinions?




http://nomfoundation.org/common/nom_det ... 898b&img=1
http://nomfoundation.org/common/nom_det ... 9053&img=1

As suggested earlier, it's best to find existing words with meaning that matches what you are looking for, instead of trying to combine existing characters to form your own "word".

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby BongSau » 2015-07-28, 0:37

Thank you :-)

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby Realblubb » 2022-07-23, 19:12

Hello,

I would like to get your help as I want to translate my son‘s Vietnamese name which was given to him by a monk into Chu nom.

His name is An Sơn (Peaceful Mountain). Thank you so much for your help :)

Florian

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby Linguaphile » 2022-07-23, 20:40

Realblubb wrote:An Sơn (Peaceful Mountain)

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Re: Need help with Chu nom characters

Postby Realblubb » 2022-07-24, 8:18

Thank you!


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