Completed translations → Text on a Korean coin (KO → EN)
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Extra information: The 1885 coin in the picture has Hanja and Hangul text. Hover over the pictures to magnify them. If someone could give translations and type the characters that would be great! :)
Signature: Dser (talk) 23:17, June 29, 2014 (UTC)
- Hello!
- Unfortunately, our Korean translators are rather limited at the moment, but I'm rather sure of the parts I understand. The Korean pronunciation of these Chinese characters is from my Japanese dictionary, they should be correct but I can't vouch for them.
- First coin: like the Japanese bank note you sent earlier, aside from the western "1 Yang", this coin is exceptionally read from right to left while Korean is usually read from left to right. We'll put the characters in reading order by reading it clockwise though:
大朝鮮・乙酉年・일냥 daejoseon - eulyunyeon - ilnyang
- Meaning:
- "Great Korea" = both Koreas, the entire Korean peninsula, I think it was 1 country then
- "Year of the second sign of the rooster" -- this year only occurs once in 60 years, so most likely 1885 as the Korean yang was used from 1892 to 1902, all of matching years can be found here (Japanese WP, but year numbers are western so readable for you))
- "one yang" -- this is written in Korean syllabic characters, signifying pronunciation
- Second coin: this is read vertically from top to bottom. It just says
一兩 (ilnyang)
which is the Chinese-character version of the above 일냥 and thus also means "one yang". As Wikipedia will probably tell you too, 5 yang equals 1 won.
- I think this counts as ✔️ Done. Must be a speed record especially considering I barely know Korean.
YATTA ヽ( ° ヮ° )ノ ☆ | 2014年06月30日、11:11:04