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Are the characters in the bag Chinese or Japanese?
http://m.orientaltrading.com/small-asian-gift-bags...
Can someone tell me if the characters on the bag is Japanese or Chinese? And what the characters translate as? Thank you.
4 Answers
- ?Lv 77 years ago
They are Kanji, which are used in both china and japan. However, the design of the bag is Chinese. Sorry, I don't know what the kanji says in Chinese.
- 7 years ago
The character is called as:
Hanzi in Chinese,
Kanji in Japanese;
Hanja in Korean;
used in east Asian countries as Chinese, Japanese, also in Korean.
福愛in Chinese mandarin: Fu Ai (Blessing/good fortune and Love),in Cantonese Chinese is Fook, Ngoi.
福愛in Japanese: Fuku, Ai(Blessing/good fortune and Love)
- ?Lv 77 years ago
In this case, it can go either way. It can either be in traditional Chinese, or in Japanese, as the word 愛 is simplified, in the Mainland, as 爱, while it remains 愛 in Japanese. The only way to tell is if there were characters which are uniquely simplified in Japan as 広 (廣 in trad. Chinese, and 广 in simp. Chinese) or else invented in Japan, such as 峠 .
- Anonymous7 years ago
The characters on the bag are Kanji. Kanji is an Asian alphabet shared by both China AND Japan.
However, my knowledge leads me to believe that this is a Chinese design. The Kanji on the left of the lantern reads "fuku" or "Good Fortune" and the one on the right of the lantern reads "ai" or "Love"
