Can anyone give details on what these symbols are?

June 13, 2017 7:50 AM

I found these appearing occasionally on a documentary. The production company is fringe, bordering conspiracy. Flickr link
posted by Alt255 to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Best answer: Characters look like 士豆网 to me. Google translate says it means "Soybean network" or "Bean network".
posted by gregr at 8:07 AM on June 13, 2017

Best answer: 土豆网 is Tudou, a Chinese video-sharing website. Sorry the answer isn't more exciting.
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:07 AM on June 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

For general character recognition where you only have a picture of the text, try drawing it in ShapeCatcher. It currently doesn't support CJK characters. For kanji/hanzi, there's the s.l.j Kanji recognition tool, or Google Translate's handwrite input method.
posted by zamboni at 8:36 AM on June 13, 2017 [5 favorites]

Response by poster: Thanks all,I was OCDing on this. Thought maybe I was involved in a new Da Vinci Code :)
posted by Alt255 at 8:59 AM on June 13, 2017 [1 favorite]