Re:Fake chips, I got stung
by dmurray on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:56AM
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Checked with a Chinese native speaker who also thinks it's 阮.
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I think it goes to "贤". As a native speaker I think "阮"'s possible but unlikely, since most people will write the "阝" part more straight.
Re:Fake chips, I got stung
by bewaretheirs on Thursday December 07, 2023 @12:07PM
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I don't know Chinese but Google translate says "贤" means "virtuous", "worthy", or "able".
Is that word plausibly used to refer to devices to mean "it works" or "it passes tests"?
It's more likely to be the name of the QA person that checked it. Writing a literal "OK" is so much easier if they just wanted it mark it as good otherwise.