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Questions about the identification of Chinese characters, especially characters seen in photos and other visual materials.

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What characters are these? ⿰食㒼, ⿰兌皮

it’s time to try the 異體字字典, maintained by the ministry of education, taiwan 🇹🇼 https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/home.do the second character is explained as: 1.表皮剝落、破損。見《玉篇.皮部》。 2.皮壞 …
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What does the 3rd symbol on this sword label mean?

my initial guess, the 3rd character is 刻 (u+523b) http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=刻 the seal script in the picture is slightly deviated from standard one. anyway, i gu …
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Are these chinese characters understandable?

Both designs are recognisable. However, for the first one, the "layout" of individual strokes is, IMO, unacceptable for your purpose. The first stroke (the dot) of the first character cannot be omitt …
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What do these Chinese symbols mean?

the characters are: 碧 - http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=碧 王 - http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=王 玲 - http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis …
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What is the name of the artist on this piece?

"馬海德", most likely was "shafick george Hatem" and his wife "周蘇菲". 于延安 is roughly at (于) the communist headquarters (延安)
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Can you identify the chinese writing on the bottom of a bowl?

rotate the photo 180 °, make it upside down, one can read it as: “成化年製” it means roughly “made during 1465-1487”
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What does this stamp on my teapot say?

the orientation is correct, read as “荊溪張製”, roughly, means “made by mr/ms 張 of county 荊溪” have fun :)
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What are these two characters?

according to 教育部異體字字典, the first one is a variant of “鵬”: https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt?quote_code=QTA0NzM4 the second one “氵”+“屰”, maybe it’s not chinese, a cjkv co …
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Help with Chinese painting marks please

the top seal is “張爰㞢印”, you may compare the small seal character: http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=張 http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=爰 http:/ …
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Recognize blurred characters?

well, with image of the whole seal, it should be read as: r . j 格洛雷 (groleau) 格 —> gaak3, 洛 -> lok3 errrr, the “r” & “l” was interchanged, “lo” pronounce quite similar as “ro” in cantonese 雷-> lui4 ri …
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can anyone help identify the chop mark please and translate (Characters identified: 一切惟心艁)

well, again, read from right to left, top to bottom. and, don’t fixated on regular script (楷書) the top right character “一”, and the top left character “心” (in small seal script) are easy to recognise. …
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Cannot find Japanese kanji in Chinese dictionary

it's 帰 (u+5e30), located in "cjk unified ideographs". it's a kanji, a character mainly used by japanese. the equivalent one in chinese is 歸 (u+6b78). imo, the dictionary used is, well, not good enoug …
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What is the missing character on the seal?

跟進此問題,題中之印 圖略 X是何字,解之有難。僅看字形,個人釋之爲「亘」,而@水巷孑蠻釋之爲「亙」,因漢朝既無「亘帝」也無「亙帝」,二解都有問題。 nice try, just some corners of vernacular chinese. practise more, you can master the writing of literary chinese : …
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Can any one tell me about the script or the seals please? (Characters identified: 藍鳥深竹 癸亥年 二...

as @droooze pointed out, the text is: 藍鳥深竹 癸亥年 二月 興利 the first seal is "陳奇傑印" the second one is "陳興利畫" "藍鳥深竹" is the painting's title, roughly blue (藍) bird (鳥) [in] bamboo forest (深竹) "癸亥年" is 1983 …
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What are the characters in this seal script inscription on an ancestral altar? (Characters i...

as @drooze revealed, it's "孝思維則" reading from right to left: 孝: http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=孝 思: http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=思 維: ht …
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