Can someone please help me translate this chop/seal/stamp? Back in 1994 my mother and I took a trip to Hong Kong to visit my grandfather, a US ex-pat, that lived there. She had this chop commissioned while we were visiting.
Unfortunately, I don't have any way to determine what she had asked to be engraved, as she had a stroke about 8 years ago and cannot remember the stamp. All I know is that it is soapstone and I thought it would be her name &quot;Lynne&quot; or her family name &quot;Curran&quot; or the combination &quot;Lynne Curran&quot;.
When I searched for her name &quot;Lynne&quot;, I found 琳恩. The first symbol, or part of it, 琳 恩 seems to be incorporated into the chop.
Thank you for any help that can be provided.
the character is 莉 (u+8389), sound file; it’s the transliteration of “lynne”.
“莉” originally means grass (艸); later used for white jasmine as in “茉莉”.
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=莉
imo, it’s quite good, for female name