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Originally Posted by milandro
or maybe, like in the other example, they don't really make any sense other than creating an artefact which may please a particular market
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I think they mean something, just we don't know exactly.
And I find the Keris's character in the former thread has the same phrase of this one ,which means they are definitely not in random. In this case, either those two Keris are made in the same place, or the phrase mean something and was widely used.
It's not difficult to carve some real characters that mean something. So if to please the market, why don't they write something like "好运来（good fortune）" than something meaningless.
When Chinese characters are used in Taoist magic and sorcery, their forms will be very different from any fonts in the ordinary sense, and they will become a kind of pictures. We call it "guihuafu" (mysterious and illegible characters). They are spell. Spell means nothing in common sense, but means something as a spell.
