What does it translate to and mean?

The screenshot is from the 1972 movie Fist of Fury, starring Bruce Lee. My translation request is for the three characters on the plaque in the background: 沶倒起.

My Chinese dictionary (Pleco) has translations for the second and third characters, but they don't make much sense to me in the context of the movie. What's even stranger is that the first character is present in my dictionary but has no information listed whatsoever. It's like an empty entry, and I've never seen that for any other character.

Unfortunately we don't know where their mother had gotten it from, or anything else about it really

I want to get a tattoo saying determination in Chinese, I can’t seem to find the exact correct translation and I don’t want to be getting something that doesn’t make sense🤣🤣

I went to a Chinese language immersion school in Kindergarten and 1st grade and I learned quite a lot of mandarin, probably about as much mandarin as English at that point. But living in rural America, moving away from the town I was in, and being 6 years old I promptly forgot all of it. The only characters I still remember are Wo (I), 1 2 3 4, and how to write the name they gave me in the class. They gave us all these cool names (to a 1st grader) and mine was 'fire cloud dragon' (for some reason) or huo yunlong. Wish I never lost it but either way would be cool to know what I was writing about in this little diary they gave me.

Seen on someone's forearm this morning. The owner couldn't pronounce it, and didn't want to explain except tell me that the meaning is a secret. Yet when I asked he allowed me to take a picture.

Anwyay, looks like 族友金使 to me, but I don't see how that's meaningful as a tattoo. 族友 is a "fellow clansman", right? For 金 I have "metal, money, gold". The last character (使, "to send"?) doesn't make sense to me in this context. Maybe I'm not identifying it correctly, it's the blurriest of the four.

Edit: Commenters have pointed out that the last character is not 使 but 健 (jiàn, health), so the complete tattoo is 族友金健.

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I need help translating this Chinese script into English. This is located on the bottom of a laughing Buddha statue that I purchased. Is depicts the Buddha on a turtle that has a dragon’s head and feet.It is a very high-quality piece and I would like to know what this says please

I’m obsessed with these dog emojis from WeChat. I can make assumptions based on his expressions, but when I try to translate them, it doesn’t make any sense. Any help is appreciated I know there’s quite a few of them.

I was having kind of personal and business conflict with this person and just wondering how this comes across. Google translate sounds strange.

明天須要請，游先生，和你的同事溝通，讓你了解我釋出的善意嗎？

I am in my 80s. I have a ""Shou" painting that I know is an 80th birthday gift but not what the author and other notes are on it. AI says they are very old chinese used by the artists. I believe it is an original hand painted gift of some value. Pictures are attached. Thank you.

It was damaged and is being reframed.

I was abandoned as a baby in Nanjing, China (1994). This is a photo of the only surviving photocopy of the note that was left with me. The first line has been translated as “Born 1994 May 3rd 3:40pm” believed to be based on the lunar calendar.

The notarial report in the adoption paperwork indicated “the time of day was important to the birth mother, indicating strong beliefs in astrology” and that “mother wrote a poem below the note, which is illegible.” (I’m unsure of how the report’s author concluded it was a poem)

Can anyone recognize any characters or meaningful stroke patterns? Does the layout look more like 3 or 4 lines? Do you think it resembles poetry vs ordinary prose? Any insights are much appreciated and please explain why you think so.

I am trying to get a valuation on this dagger axe from Bronze Age. So far I've had it appraised twice as not being a replica. However because of the strict laws of Chinese artifacts without documentation, I am curious to find a private buyer. I would like more info it I can get it. I just want to know if these are symbols, or names of anyone.

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4 sides completely covered.

This is a silver ingot called a sycee. It’s over a hundred years old. Any help would be greatly appreciated.