By Vurdlak on July 28, 2009, with 107 Comments
Chinese Sign Optical Illusion
As I have promised yesterday, new day – new optical illusion! Can you read this Chinese sign on your left? Sure you can! A little self-confidence and some flexing of the muscles in your neck, should do the trick. No additional hints further!
I took some time and added “Symbol” tag to some previous optical illusions that in their nature are similar to this one. If you follow the link, you may find few more “Chinese” illusions there. This should help you further identify the optical illusion used in this sample.
If you didn’t notice, the title of this post contains “Part II” – You guessed, there is Part I as well.
BTW I’ve heard some positive suggestions from you guys. For example: how I should disable the picture from showing its filename, or disable the tags below each post (sometimes they spoil the puzzle). As eager I may be to do that, I’m still not sure if this would be possible. Sure, its easy to remove the tags or simply name the image “xgzgf” or something, but all these tags are necessary for SEO (Google search engine). Seems I’ll have to find another way of masking those…
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It says China!
I like these type of ilusions I can clearly see it says “CHINA”.
China
Cool spells Unih)! Im so smarted
Yay! I love CHINA!!!
China
that is soo cool, but it took me a second to find lol!
FIRST POST!!!
Its china
Ha, it’s really easy! Just turn the picture 90° clockwise!
That is so awesome is See if you tilt your head left is says “China!!” awesome!!
Haha, CHINA… :P
UNIH) IM soooo smarted
china:D
That was really easy. China.
A fun fact: this actually means China in Chinese! 中国 (country middle).
* middle country, not country middle
The last couple illusions have been too easy…
it says China. too easy
lol china and it´s mysterys!!
This one’s GREAT!
China! Oh, this is really fun :D
Hey, I have a suggestion. Why not give us 4 to 5 days to solve your puzzle? Later on, you’ll announce (via comment) that you had already tagged your posts.
Am I first? Hope I am! :D
Too easy, but very cool.
Hint: Country with a kabillion people…
hahaha it says china if you go 90 degrees anticlockwise!! first comment?
it says china
Easy with a tilt of the head
FIRST!
i see it if u tilt ur head it should spell china!
took me a while but i found out wat it means :)
oh yea, forgot to mention that i know a little chinese, and the english word found in the image means excaclty wat the chinese word means
sorry if thats a bit confusing XD
That’s actually really neat. I can read Chinese, so I see both 中國 and China in it!
Although it’s using simplified Chinese, so it’s read as 中国。
i dont get it
Cool!! Very interesting, similar to one that told us to “get back to work”… I think it was supposed to be Arabic.
phew took some twisting – fortunately my screen can be picked up and moved around, saving my neck muscles. “The East is Red!” – or am I revealing myself as a (very) old lefty
China :)
Hmmm… I’m Chinese and that says “zhong guo”, which means “China” or, literally, “Middle Country”, but no matter how I look at this, nothing’s clicking… :o Maybe because I already know what it really means?
it says china! please send in some more!
This illusion actually says china in chinese lettering(from top to bottom) as opposed to the previous “chinese” illusions
I see it!
I see unit 1
Nice. Arabic letters can be made like this, too. I wonder if you had some of those. Russians, too. I’ve seen a poster pasted on a wall facing a mirror in a public toilet. If you read the poster, it seems to be foreign words in Russian (cyrillic? Excuse my ignorance here) letters. But when you read the poster through the reflection in the mirror, it’s actually latin letters in English language.
China!
It’s on the bottom of most of my dishes.
Hello all!. Cut in the middle and the message appear.Don’t understand noting coz it’s for english peaple…
I figured it out right away but it’s cool though.
Yes, I get CHINA.
it says china if u turn your head sideways
Haha, definitely looks like the Chinese characters it’s translating into English :D
CHINA
China!
That was easy;-) but i like it
thats cool^^
Haha! Just tilt your head to the left!
I read CHINA
“Can you read this Chinese sign on your left?”
LOL
Lol, I’m not chinese or anything, but there’s no way that could resemble a chinese symbol :P
It’s China!
Cool one! It’s China in Mandarin vertically down and China in English it’s it’s flipped on one side. More!
1st comment!
Whoa nice illusion, wonder what that chinese character means.
I get it… for those of you who don’t try reading it sideways =D
Does it say ‘HINA’ ??
It does if you read it from the side.
It says China ))
Can’t see it! O.O :(
I`d say tilt Your neck to the left …. Nice illusion .. love those ones :D
I guess it says “China” from bottom to top…
china?
Oh I totally see it now. I didnt get it til I saw part 1. If you tilt your head to the left you can see it clearly :)
This is definitely easier than Part I heh.
Doesn’t it say, China? I think so.
SPOILER!!!
CHINA
SPOILER!!!
Haha, nice pun on the “on your left”. I like the double meaning of it, meaning China in Chinese AND in English! Nice illusion. ^^
that actually looks similar to a chinese symbol…lol but the trick behind it is quite fascinating….
Just tilt your head to the left, and “China” appears… actually, those ARE Chinese characters: 中国 (zong guo), which means, well, “China” in Chinese o_0″ But, that little “v” part in the “N” kind of ruins it… the original characters not supposed to have that. Great illusion though, cool!
Scott; you are right, that resembles no chinese character.
iT’s just a ploy for foreigners, a kind of a special font.
Emma, you fell for it.
ed, see scott’s comment
中國
is the correct way to right ‘china’ in mandarin and cantonese and other various dialects.
it actually says china in chinese as well just written a little weirdly!
that’s not chinese at all
It says China in both English and Chinese. From the side it says “China”, but up down those are the chinese charecters for China.
To hide the tags without having them disappear from your code (and thus still indexable by Google), add the following line into your CSS:
span.tags { display:none; }
Hope that helps!
it is two chinese words on top of the other zhong guo.it is chinese for china.p.s i am a true chinese
It’s both. ‘China’ in English. It’s also ‘中国’ which means China. I love this, it’s awesome!
it says china in english,but this is not a chinese character,an does not mean anything written this way
As a matter of fact, it is a Chinese character. Well, to be precise, it’s two Chinese characters. reading vertically, the words say 中国, which in Chinese, mean China!