Or is it just scribbles?

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It’s mandarin and something about fish, but that’s all i’m able to decipher because it looks just like doctor’s writing and my mandarin proficiency is very rusty 😅

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I’m a Hongkonger, and I read Chinese for life. I have an interpretation on this.

First 3 words are someone’s name.

The next 4 might be “溫水摸魚” which I believe they actually meant “渾水摸魚”. This is a Chinese idiom. It means somebody is creating chaos, and benefits from it. This makes a lot more sense with the final 4 words.

I believe it’s “我看到款”, a potential unfinished sentence of “I saw the money”.

So this note might be someone witnessing the crime, and writing down their final message in a rush.

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Ahh! Now i see the character! And i was thinking it’s about how to steam fish 😂

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Thanks

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the top right is probably 混水摸鱼 which is an idiom my dictionary translates as “to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain”. the top left three characters might be someone’s name. the bottom row: no idea about the first character. second character is probably 着. last two characters are probably 罚款 (fine, as in paying money as a penalty). the handwriting is pretty sloppy.

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母看罰款?

No idea who the person is.

If it’s canto, first character could be 母 for negation

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mm good idea, maybe there really aren’t two dots on top of the 看.

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Maybe there are. My first instinct was 為, but my Chinese isn’t very good

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This sounds vaguely like “Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime; that’s why I shit on company time.”
Was this written in a bathroom stall?

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What’s the context?

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Writing on the wall, man. We gotta know what it says!

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My phone translated it as:

L Jieming appears again; it’s a very water model.

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I got “Kidney or warm water for replacement.”

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/thread 😂

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I know it’s been said and I can’t offer more information, but this is very obviously a Chinese dialect and not scribbles. I don’t even speak/read a language other than English, but the shapes are clearly there.

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Doesn’t mean they cant write it bad enough its indecipherable from scribbles

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I gotcha. That makes sense.

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