I have a big, old, 24k gold, signet pinky ring made in mainland China that my grandfather gave to my grandmother (they were married in 1911) and it's a bit of a pain because it molds to my finger since it's so soft and every now and then I have it "rounded" because it gets so lopsided. The inside has Chinese symbols and once I was with a friend in New York's Chinatown and there was a Chinese jeweler so we went inside and I asked him what the symbols said and he replied, "24 karat" and I said, "yes, I know, but what do the symbols say?" and it took him and my girlfriend a bit of time to get across to me that that was what the symbols said