Chop translation

[asterroc]

I have a Chinese chop, in traditional characters. It is possible that it contains my name in Chinese (Szu Sung-Eh), or it could be something else entirely ("licensed prostitute"). I can no longer write my Chinese name, but I think I would recognize it if hand written, and certainly the last symbol doesn't look like anything I recognize (that and my name is three parts, not four).

Below the cut are images of the stamp/print, and the chop itself. Click for bigger.


Print


Chop (since it is a stamp, it is backwards of how it prints)



If you know what it says, please enlighten me.

Edit: A mirror image of the chop and further discussion can be found here.

Comments

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

So I asked one of my friends at work, who grew up in mainland China. To her it looks like these characters are very old; they're not using the standard components. (E.g. the character in the lower right, the bottom-right component in the character in the upper right, the top component in the character in the bottom left.)

Based on that (and on the similar comment above), you may have to go to an actual scholar of historical Chinese writing in order to get anywhere with this. If you do, I'd be interested in finding out what you learn.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've emailed another friend whose mother usually manages to puzzle out the most obscure things, so maybe they'll pipe up here or if not I'll post it if they email me back. She's not a scholar though, just highly literate, so it may be she doesn't know either, and I'll have to keep hunting.