Need help translating a postcard you've received?

This is a topic where you can request help from other postcrossers to translate something you cannot read on a postcard you have received.

You can post a photo of your postcard text here, and someone will hopefully see your request and reply with a translation soon. Please make sure you hide any identifying details from the image, such as names or Postcard IDs.

Keep in mind that you can use tools like Google Translate, DeepL, Yandex Translate for a quicker result.

Note: The purpose of this topic is to help translate text that is unintelligible, and posts on the topic are regularly deleted, so that postcard messages don’t stay here for too long. The Community Guidelines still apply otherwise, both in other part of the forum as well as outside of it, so please don’t share the written side of postcards elsewhere.

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“中华鲟” is the name of Chinese sturgeon :shark:, an anadromous species native to China :cn:.
“长江” means Yangtze River, “梦” means dream :zzz: and “鱼” stands for fish :fish: in Chinese.

Because the pronunciation of sturgeon is similar with “finding” in Chinese, the upper phrase could be interpreted into “Chinese sturgeons pursue their dream”. The lower one literally means “Fish live in the Yangtze River”.

Generally, it is a piece of Chinese slogan on endangered species act :fishing_pole_and_fish: to raise public environmental awareness. :national_park:

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Thank you! That’s very interesting!

Cheers!
There’s lots of interesting poems in Chinese that deserve to be known by more people, so it’s awesome to see them on cards being sent out! :sunglasses:

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Yes, so true! I love poems. And I would never have known without this translation help… :slight_smile:

:slightly_smiling_face: Can someone please translate the words on the card.
Thank you.

Google says this, I’m sure someone else can confirm it though x

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:slightly_smiling_face: Thank you.

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:slightly_smiling_face: Can someone please translate the words on the card.
I like to know where the place ist.

It is Taganay national park in Chelyabinsk Oblast

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:slightly_smiling_face: Thank you.

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I know it’s not a postcard but recently I bough some Chinese posters from the second hand and this one was also inside . I did say that I don’t need it but was told to buy them all or not to get any of them .
Anyhow I asked friends who may know this language but they also said they don’t know what language it is so I would like to ask for help identifying it + to know what is written on it if possible . Thank you

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It has a similar look to a Tibetan prayer flag, but I can’t get Google to translate it from Nepalese so I suspect I’m not correct x


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I found this on an auction website, is it the same? X

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I think it is actually but my have some places that looks like they made mistakes by writing . Also I was way off thinking what language it is . Is there by any chance written what it’s written on or not ?

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I’m afraid there isn’t, it’s from this website but there’s no extra detail x

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sad that there is no more info but at least now I know what it is so maybe I will get lucky later on to find a translation . Still thank you :hugs:

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You’re very welcome, I hope you’re able to find the information you’re looking for x

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Hey. I’m happy if someone could translate this. I’m just too curious…

Google says it’s this, it might not be 100% accurate though x

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