Is the symbol in the images a chinese letter, and if it is, what does it mean?
Is the symbol in the images a chinese letter, and if it is, what does it mean?
I saw this image on Walt Disney's tie in a picture of him. It is not a Chinese character, rather the letters S, R and T, according to : http://www.quora.com/Saving-Mr-Banks-2013-film/What-is-the-logo-mark-on-Walt-Disneys-tie .
It certainly has the feel of a Chinese character, though I don't recognize it as anything modern. At first glance, it seemed to be a smudged/misformed 束. However, upon closer inspection, it could be 䖝, a variant/corrupted form of 蟲(虫) meaning insect.
If you look at the entry under a03683-003 on http://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/yitia/yda/yda03683.htm, it seems very similar.
Furthermore, there are multiple entries under http://en.glyphwiki.org/wiki/twedu-a03683-004 which bear a strong resemblance to the image you posted, namely u459d-04-var-001 / u459d-14-var-001 and u459d-ue0102 (just search for those entries in your browser).
Keep in mind that Chinese characters have been used in other languages and they have been modified or simplified over time, resulting in these variant forms.
where did you see this character? it looks like it could be the flipped image of the character for "免“ which means
(Min Nan) it is not necessary; there is no need
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%85%8D
(flipped image)
The flipped version @ljk provided somehow reminds me of the character 兔 (rabbit), even it doesn't looks like one.