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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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!
For everyone who is wondering what the actual characters are, it says “zhong guo” or China (literally “middle country”)
I’m Chinese and the words are pronounced zhong(1) guo(2), which means “China”, but literally meaning “centre country”. It was a little weird because this word “国” doesn’t have the letter “N”. Good effort though.
My neighbor/Friend Japanese and has some knowledge of Chinese she says it wrote badly on purpose to accommodate for C H I N A been seen in English, Is this true?
cool it’s 中国 or middle country, cuz they in the middle of their world.
oh, it’s mandarin chinese word for china.
dudes who think tht’s not a chinese character:
it is!!! it’s china, in madarin…oh and if u think the guo is rong…tht’s cuz its simplified! nobody uses traditional anymore(well, actually lots of ppl still do…let’s just say i’m rite!)
who cant read that you just tilt your head to the left and it says china
lame
thats cool you just tilt your haed to the left
and it says China
poke Anonymous A.: traditional Chinese FTW~!!!!!!!!! traditional is so much prettier and meaningful~~ I refuse to be assimilated! HK + Taiwan still uses traditional =)
I’m genetically Chinese, born + raised in Hong Kong, then went to a church filled with people from mainland China who use simplified Chinese… I can attest that, read vertically right side up, that is in fact simplified Chinese saying “China”, with a funny squiggle on top of the 2nd character to accommodate for the N =)
took me so long to see this one because I thought it was just “artistic” Chinese =P But nicely done ^___^
like Emma said and very right, reads in both ways China, top character Zhong(centre) and the bottom one guo(country)but not really sure if it’s that correct and that translates to China..
keep up!! :D
Geez, this is chinese. Seriously. it says china up and down as well as side to side
turn your head it side ways it says china in chinese and english