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鈚 Pi

English translation: [1] ploughshare [2] barb of an arrow

05:39 Apr 26, 2006
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Geology / Mining
Japanese term or phrase: 鈚 Pi
This non-Japanese character is used in reference to several locations at Jinquashi mine in Taiwan in a Japanese paper on the geology of the region written some decades ago. A Taiwanese contact couldn't help me figure out the meaning. The best I can figure is that it may be the word for marker or the like.

Context:

…堆積岩と火成岩の境界に胚胎している管状の粗石山・500m鈚・吉祥鈚鉱体…
chirin (X)
English translation:[1] ploughshare [2] barb of an arrow
Explanation:
[1] ploughshare [2] barb of an arrow

... is what the dictionary says (see link below), but I'm guessing either garbled text (especially next to the nakaguro) or place name, but the latter seems unlikely.
Selected response from:

Marc Adler
Local time: 17:48
Grading comment
This comes direct from a photocopy of an article from the print periodical Mining Geology, so it's almost certainly not garbled text, and those definitions don't seem to fit the context. So far it seems more likely to be a place name.
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2[1] ploughshare [2] barb of an arrow
Marc Adler


  

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[1] ploughshare [2] barb of an arrow


Explanation:
[1] ploughshare [2] barb of an arrow

... is what the dictionary says (see link below), but I'm guessing either garbled text (especially next to the nakaguro) or place name, but the latter seems unlikely.


    Reference: http://chineselanguage.org/cgi-bin/view.php?query=921A&encod...
Marc Adler
Local time: 17:48
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
This comes direct from a photocopy of an article from the print periodical Mining Geology, so it's almost certainly not garbled text, and those definitions don't seem to fit the context. So far it seems more likely to be a place name.
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