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NeOmega
Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 10:00 pm:   

Hi,

I am working on a modification of the game Civilization III. I learned about 700 Kanji via a freeware program called Kanji Gold about 2 years ago. Unfortunately teaching myself all the kanjis via a flashcard program became too tedious..... :D

I still love them!

Could somebody give me the best kanji symbols for these words:
(they are for empire "advisors", either of the two words will do)
industry or domestic
Technology or science
foreign affairs or diplomacy
trade or economy
army or military

and the final one is a bit strange

souls or immortality




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NeOmega
Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 10:12 pm:   

I forgot to add, if you could condense it down to just a single Kanji symbol each, it would be most useful, as they are going to be on a fairly small 50 x 50 pixel button.

Thanks

Reuben

P.S.

It is in late stages if you want to see what it is....

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=60731
only go if you have high speed internet as it is graphic intensive.
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Matjlav
Username: Matjlav

Registered: 07-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 01:13 pm:   

Civ 3... I like that game.

One kanji is hard. I think you can fit 2 kanji in 50 x 50.

Industry - 産業
Science - 科学
Diplomacy- 外交
Trade - 商業
Military - 軍

These are translations for "Industrious," "Scientific," "Commercial," "Militaristic," and "Expansionist," right?

But the mod looks great. Hope it turns out good.






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NeOmega
Posted on Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 06:45 pm:   

Hi Matjlav,

They are actually going to be the buttons you push along the left side to get to various advisors.

Thanks for the help, it looks like I used the WWWJDIC fairly correctly. I got a different Kanji for trade, 貿, and foreign, 外 , however, I wasn't sure if these Kanji alone meant what I was trying to portray.

If anyone else could provide single Kanji for any of these, or perhaps something close in concept, I would be very happy.

Cheers,

Reuben
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Anonymous
Posted on Thursday, September 09, 2004 - 07:51 pm:   

Sorry, but Matjlav is right. Most of these words cannot really be expressed in a single kanji.外 for example, if used by itself, could mean 'outside', 'outdoors', 'other', 'external', etc. You really need 外交 together for it to mean 'diplomacy'.
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NeOmega
Posted on Friday, September 10, 2004 - 06:20 pm:   

Thanks,

I was afraid of that.

cheers
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NeOmega
Posted on Friday, September 17, 2004 - 03:02 am:   

I had another link in my research bookmarks, and it had this single kanji for foreign:

http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/unipen/kanji/38/55.gif

two single kanji's for industry

http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/unipen/kanji/46/58.gif
and
http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/unipen/kanji/73/66.gif

one single kanji for science
http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/unipen/kanji/33/58.gif

and two single Kanji for trade

http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/unipen/kanji/48/4e.gif
and
http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/unipen/kanji/4b/47.gif

Are these correct? Perhaps it is a different form of Kanji?
If they are correct, anyone know which one is more geared towards a political definition?
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Matjlav
Username: Matjlav

Registered: 07-2003
Posted on Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 09:41 am:   

Well, they're not usually used alone, but I suppose they could work...

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