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April 5

Chinese names of hotel chains

In http://www.grandmercurehotels.com.cn/images/common/footerImg.jpg http://www.webcitation.org/6FexVmDBg what are the Chinese names of the hotel chains? And please confirm the following:

Sofitel is 索菲特
Mercure is 美居 Mei Ju
Novotel is 诺富特
M Gallery is 美憬阁
Grand Mercure is 美爵 Mei Jue
Pullman is 铂尔曼
Ibis is 宜必思
The hotel company is 雅高酒店集团

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Identifying Japanese characters

Hi, please see http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4497/55563252.png

Does this say 行かれる、来られる? (It is the れ that I am not 100% sure about.) 86.171.42.166 (talk) 23:02, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it does. Oda Mari (talk) 05:33, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Mari, does that れ look at all unusual or sloppy or idiosyncratic to you, or is it a normal way of writing it? 86.171.42.64 (talk) 11:03, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is totally normal. Seeing as you are so interested in Japanese handwriting, I would suggest reading about ペン字, which is handwriting using a pen (or pencil). KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 14:12, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Probably idiosyncratic, but it's also sloppy. It looks bit like cursive script, but it's inappropriate as the other characters are regular script. Oda Mari (talk) 16:50, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]