ivory carving
 

Could someone tell me what the symbol says.


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I'll leave the translation to someone who knows how to do it...
but please research the implications that ivory trade has on animals...especially elephants in countries such as Kenya.

I'm not in the ivory trade this was bought for $1 at a yard sale. It may not even be real ivory. Thanks for the help.

Doesn't look like Japanese to me. Looks like the sounds for "ya" and "yu" in Korean a bit, but I don't think it's Korean, either. You can't put those two together like that AFAIK.

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This is retarded but... it kinda looks like 大穴 (おおあな; Big hole) with 大 sort of written sideways-y with its left leg connecting to the top of 穴. Or maybe 大六 (たいろく/だいろく; Tairoku or Dairoku, Japanese forename) ... I'm 100% sure that's not it, just wanted to point that out though :P

That is not Japanese, that's for sure.