A couple of groovy avatar type pictures I made

[Adam]

I was bored and started playing with little pictures using Japanese stuff:

http://bad-sports.com/~archive/images/avatar.gif
http://bad-sports.com/~archive/images/yinyang.gif

 

[amwbonfire]

The're very good.

Do you have a lot of time on your hands?

Only joking.

 

[Adam]

Yeah, I do. Not much work last week.

 

[Tsu]

What kind of work do you do, Adam?

 

[Adam]

I'm a computer contractor type guy, among other things.

 

[BoulderHead]

Groovy baby !

 

[Leong]

mind to explain the chinese/japanese characters on the pictures?

 

[Adam]

In the yinyang, the characters are ten and chi. Ten = earth, mundane, physical, stuff like that. Chi = heaven, spiritual, mystical, et cetera.

The other says "chivalrous spirit". Not something I have, but probably something worth trying for.

 

[recon]

The characters in both avatars are Chinese. I don't really think they are Japanese but I might be wrong because both languages share similar characters. The characters in the second avatar read 'tien chi' in Chinese. I doubt that it would have the same pronounciation in Japanese, in the case that the characters are Japanese.

 

[Adam]

They are Japanese, but the Japanese kanji are indeed based on the Chinese. This site is good for translations if you have your computer set up for kanji: http://www.jlpt-kanji.com/