Asian cleaver / knife

Hi again. I found this knife at the swap meet yesterday, and hope someone can guide me on maker.

The mark looks like two eyes and the same word / name on both sides of them.

Im not even sure what to properly call it?

Thanks in advance!

 

Meat cleaver????

 

The baby brother to the one in my kitchen drawer? Mine is one piece of steel and I use it as often as not to whack open acorn squash and the like. When in doubt, I use the convincer, aka a hammer. I think they're meant for whacking up meat.

 

When I was a teenager, we had a deck built on the back of our house. While I was hanging around, the worker guys told me how the hammer was the most useful tool of all... lots of things it could be used for-- and lots of colorful language to describe them!

 

All the different shapes have different names no doubt. I call mine the forgetful cable installer hammer - that's how I got it.(LOL)

 

Hey, I have a giant crowbar downstairs with a similar name! Only difference is I call it the "You did a half ass job, and even forgot your tools, so I'm keeping your Crowbar!"

 

Pretty much sums up the whole cable company - Comcast, often called Conned-cast or Scumcast. They've rebranded themselves as Xfinity, but only after I'd long switched companies.

 

it's a kitchen knife....chopper...



a cleaver, would have a heavier blade with a more swept curve..

 

or one could call it a Chinese Cleaver........... I guess!

 

Japanese vegetable knife/cleaver.....https://yoshihiro-knives.myshopify....-knife-shitan-rosewood?variant=37098992402619

 

The script looks like Thai to me. A Thai food chopper.

 

Looks like maybe the Thai brand is 'Aranyik.' Thanks for all the help!