Millions of people from different countries play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, representing hundreds of cultures and languages. This diversity also exists among skinmakers; moreover, many artists strive to put part of their national philosophy into artworks. Stickers, skins, map Easter eggs… You can find lots of it everywhere.
But sometimes, skins have inscriptions in unknown languages. More precisely, unknown to most people. The game has Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Spanish and even Latin — knowing one of them is already pretty cool, but understanding several at once is impossible. Knowing one of these is already pretty cool, but understanding several at once is impossible. CS.MONEY Blog collected ten skins with mysterious inscriptions and tried deciphering what is written there. With Google Camera Translator.
AWP The Prince
A work of art from the Renaissance and nothing else. All in all, this weapon finish screams loudly: it has Latin, refers to Venice (The Canals Collection is just about this city), and the general design of the skin is evident. This inscription refers to the symbol of Venice, the St Mark’s Lion, which is located on the facade of the Scuola San Marco.
You can read more about the lion and the inscription on Wikipedia, while the text itself is deciphered as follows: “Peace be with you, Mark, my evangelist.” These are the words of an angel who spoke to Mark, the writer of the Gospel.
Google failed to translate it.
Five-SeveN Kami
Kami has a wonderful history. The author simply drew a comic and printed it on Five-Seven. It turned out pretty decent and popular. You can find an authentic transcription of the text below alongside how Google translated it.
Top right: This comic is pointless! I just wrote this because I like Japanese writing.
Middle right: the subject is Counter-Strike.
Bottom Right: AAAAAA! The Counter-Terrorists must prevent planting or defuse the C4 explosive
Top middle: I like curry. Mmmmm~
Top left: What (literally, it only says “what”)
Very middle: counter-terrorists must prevent planting or defuse the C4 explosive. KYAAAAA
Middle left: FUN! SO FUN!! (the guy on right) what’s the sound? (left)
AUG Akihabara Accept
One of the rare anime skins in CS:GO, AUG Akihabara Accept, looks impressive. Unfortunately, AUG is out of the meta right now; however, this skin has a lot of funny inscriptions, and the Translator did a fine job.
SSG 08 Fever Dream
This SSG 08 Fever Dream is not symmetrical on both sides, as it turns out. The inscription Hahaha and Careful, which are seen on the left side, are replaced with some hieroglyphs on the gun’s right side. The skincreator makes it clear: it references Xavier Wulf & Bones – Bochi Nibuku, quoting, “She’s bad, and I’m good”. However, Google Translate screwed up a little…
Tec-9 Jambiya
Taking a leap from the Far East to the Middle East. The barely noticeable scratches on the Jambiya’s side are actually numbers, which, as you might guess, are the notorious C4 code. Most CS:GO players know them by heart since 7355608 is a pretty popular thing to appear on skins. But at least this reference is innovative.
AK-47 Bloodsport
Fashionable and stylish AK-47 Bloodsport shines with simple hieroglyphs, which mean literally Lightning. Seems legit because the skin’s idea is all about electricity. Google Translator did its best.
M4A1-S Master Piece
It’s not actually another language, but in general, graffitis are often difficult to read. The M4A1-S Master Piece contains not just a random spray job but also a simple hint: it’s literally the word SILENCE. Google would never sort this through.
AK-47 Wasteland Rebel
Another skin that only at first glance seems complicated. Wasteland Rebel’s inscription is pretty simple: 1337CREW, calligraphically stylised as Arabic writing. You know what CREW means, but we hope there’s no reason to tell what 1337 is. Google failed here, too.
M4A4 Cyber Security
The last skin of the compilation has Chinese inscriptions on it. Its name hints that the translation will be related to cybersecurity. Google couldn’t deal with hieroglyphs, but the author tells what it’s all about on the skin’s Workshop page:
This is what Google made:
By the way, here’s a funny story about M4A4 Cyber Security. Reddit users noticed that Gun Magazine is translated not as “Gun Clip” but as “Gun Magazine”, meaning newspaper, while in Chinese, these are different words. Fortunately, the author corrected it quickly. Peculiar, considering that a native speaker helped create the skin.
SG 553 Triarch
It’s funny, but some skin creators do pretty strange things. In this case, for example, the skin has letters that appear to be a Japanese word. But Google Translator didn’t work at all, the author hadn’t left a hint, and only a Workshop discussion revealed the secret: this Japanese writing does not really mean anything, but if you look at the Japanese keyboard (katakana), the keys mean W E A P O N. Looks a little lazy!
There are several more skins in CS:GO with graffiti, hieroglyphs and other incomprehensible inscriptions. For example, P250 Cassette has the word “cassette” written in Japanese, simple as that. What other skins with mysterious inscriptions do you know? Leave the names in the comments, and don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter in the box below!
