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Help with Asian Characters on Jade Pendant with 24K Gold Bear?

I'm hoping that someone can help me identify and/or translate the Asian characters on the back of this pendant. The bear is 24K gold mounted on jade. Thank you in advance.

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Re: Help with Asian Characters on Jade Pendant with 24K Gold Bear?

I can't read hanzi (Chinese) or kanji (Japanese), but here's what information I got from Google Translate:

 

和 田 玉  Hetian jade

定  set

金  gold

By the way, I think the figure is a tiger.

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Re: Help with Asian Characters on Jade Pendant with 24K Gold Bear?

Thank you so much for your quick reply.  Not sure what I was thinking but yes, I would agree that it's definitely a tiger.  Many thanks again.

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I'm not Chinese, (Japanese) but by googling more it reads

足金 means 

 

Chuk Kam in English
It's technically Gold, but the purity is 99.0%, not

99.9% then it must read 千足金

99.99%, then it will be called in Chinese, 万足金

 

I've learned something new today!:D

 

 

 

 

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Re: Help with Asian Characters on Jade Pendant with 24K Gold Bear?

Also, that 99.99 pure gold looks like it is only a layer of foil 9999.9999 cm thick.

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Re: Help with Asian Characters on Jade Pendant with 24K Gold Bear?


@sonomabarn67 wrote:

Also, that 99.99 pure gold looks like it is only a layer of foil 9999.9999 cm thick.


 

I think you got the decimal point in the wrong place. That would be almost 100 meters thick. open_mouth

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