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February 01, 2014, 05:40:38 AM
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Any cryptographers out there? Puzzle solvers? I'm stumped-- and the problem shouldn't even concern me, but I NEED to know what it means, and I am willing to pay 0.2 BTC for the answer. I was asking a question in an irc room, when someone presented this image: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=35i0f0o&s=8#.UuxpGpBDveU along with it rotated: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=12179d4&s=8#.Uux82JBDveU .

Here is what I have so far
The first character: I have no clue what it is.
The second character: it is Chinese for potentially one of many of the words to the bottom right: http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%E5%91%A8

The third part, the boxed character, I have come to find that the center character is Meetei Mayek http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UABC0.pdf

It is the first character. It literally trasnlates to "head". In Unicode, it is transcribed ABC0:http://unicode-table.com/en/search/?q=abc0
Which is what is written on the left of the enclosing square.

On the right of the enclosing square, ABFF, is the final Unicode character for Meetei Mayek. It is blank, or nil. http://unicode-table.com/en/search/?q=abff

On the bottom of the enclosing rectangle, what looks like an "s" I believe is the numeral 4 or 1 in Meetei Mayek, and the line is "joining" or underline: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/manipuri.htm

So the final character is something along the lines of: For(4) joining the mind(head) beginning(abc0) to end(abff).

Or One(1) head(mind?) joining the beginning(abc0) to the end (abff).

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February 01, 2014, 06:50:59 AM
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tl;dr
the left half of the pic is one character with two constituent parts

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February 01, 2014, 07:17:13 AM
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The first two characters are Chinese. 山 (shan) is mountain, hill, high place, or a surname. 周 (zhou) is circle, complete, all, or a surname. They are two separate characters, not one with two parts.

I'm not sure about the third one. It is kok (ka) in Meetei Mayek, the first letter of that Unicode block &ABC0. But &ABFF has no character assigned to it. ka, like you say, means "head." &ABF9 is the MM character for 9. So could &ABFF by extension mean 15?

ka is enclosed in a rectangle, or a box.

Circle the hill with a head in a box? I have no idea.
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February 01, 2014, 07:19:33 AM
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I don't believe that is the first character
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February 01, 2014, 09:10:44 AM
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The first two characters are Chinese. 山 (shan) is mountain, hill, high place, or a surname. 周 (zhou) is circle, complete, all, or a surname. They are two separate characters, not one with two parts.


yes that's right, i was wrong sorry. my chinese is very rusty

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February 01, 2014, 12:58:57 PM
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I don't believe that is the first character

Well, Manipur (the origin of Meetei Mayek) is a mountainous region in the Himalayas - a 'circle of mountains'. So the two characters would seem to make some sense in this context.
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