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HBCOSMOMAN

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Does anyone know what this sticker says?
« on: January 19, 2013, 01:47:16 AM »
This sticker is on the back of my HB Cosmo under the rear right tail light.
Can someone translate the japanese for me.?

spastk

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Re: Does anyone know what this sticker says?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2013, 09:14:35 AM »
Hey mate,

I think it says "Mazda car [something]". I think it might be a service sticker, or maybe a dealership sticker? Mind you this is just from me copy and pasting Katakana characters that look like the ones on the sticker into Google Translate!

I got as far as "マツダカ ート" if you wanted to try - which says "Mazda cart" according to Google Translate. The last two characters I don't have aren't Katakana - I think they are Kanji. But there are thousands of Kanji characters so makes it difficult.

Here is the list of characters I was going from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#Table_of_katakana

Take this with a grain of salt 'cos I have no formal education in Japanese - I only know this from trying to decipher Cosmo brochures ;)

Hope that helps,
Aaron
[SPASTK] 1983 Mazda Cosmo Coupe

Kramer

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Re: Does anyone know what this sticker says?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2013, 02:15:33 PM »
Cool idea to try and translate this. I have no idea about Japanese, but I hear each symbol can mean more than one thing? Good luck