- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Pet0sh
Nope, it's chinese. Doesn't look like japanese, and believe me, I know chinese.
oops, missed your post oobie
Yeah, a lot of japanese is derived from traditional chinese, and then you have the whole simplified chinese thing.
But I think it's chinese, as they used the chinese symbol for 7 quite often.
He's right, Japanese consists of three types of writing: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, the third of which is basically standard Han-era Chinese.
Honestly, though, it looks like japanese more than it does chinese (I grew up in a Chinese household, though I can't personally read it). I know that on the M6D, there's a japanese character inscribed on the...I think the barrel of the gun? Seeing that Bungie apparently makes japanese references, I would assume this would be a japanese character.
[Edited on 10/7/2006]