Sunday, September 25, 2011

Experimenting with a new concept: Kufic Square (Arabic) + Jawi (Malay) + Mandarin (Chinese). The phrase should read 'Wa Ai Ni' (Wah-Eye-Knee), Mandarin for 'I love you'.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Wm Jas said...

I read Chinese, but I don't get this. Is it Chinese words transliterated into Arabic or what?

9:52 AM  
Blogger nagfa said...

It's Mandarin written phonetically into Jawi and arranged into a Square Kufic.

So it reads 'wa ai ni', in Jawi, basically.

nagfa

12:42 PM  

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