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Hey everyone =) I've been wanting a tattoo in kanji for a long time, but I'm a little fearful since I don't want to have the wrong translation on my body.

Can anyone translate the following phrase into kanji for me?

"Strong spirited woman"


Thank you so much!
 
caitlinfrazier said:
Hey everyone =) I've been wanting a tattoo in kanji for a long time, but I'm a little fearful since I don't want to have the wrong translation on my body.
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That fear is the right reaction you should be having... It's telling you "Hey, this is probably a bad Idea." I'll strongly advise you NOT to get kanji tattooed on your body.
 
yukio_michael said:
That fear is the right reaction you should be having... It's telling you "Hey, this is probably a bad Idea." I'll strongly advise you NOT to get kanji tattooed on your body.
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Well thank you for your opinion, but I'm really just looking for a translation here.
 
Most Japanese would understand this to mean "strong spirited woman" but I strongly suggest you heed Yukio's advice:

お転婆 or 御転婆
 
I agree with the advice you've been told so far. Jimmy Seal's translation would technically work, but please understand that it's not a "good" word. In English "strong spirited woman" sounds neutral to good, but in Japanese お転婆 sounds only bad.
 
How about 強い女 or you can shorten it to 強女 without a problem, I would imagine. It literally means "strong woman" which is probably as close to what you want as you can reasonably get.
 
Mikawa Ossan said:
I agree with the advice you've been told so far. Jimmy Seal's translation would technically work, but please understand that it's not a "good" word. In English "strong spirited woman" sounds neutral to good, but in Japanese お転婆 sounds only bad.
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I've been told by a few people it has a positive connotation, so it isn't universally reviled like "浮気女" or 浮気者" or something. But of course that is still only a handful of individual opinions. :-)
 
Elizabeth, that's interesting. I'd love to hear what any of our Japanese members would have to say on the matter! 👍
 
Could someone translate this to English, please? I have no idea what it means.
 
hello

Hi can anyone help me with this one?

I'm new to the forum so I can't post URL's I guess... lol
 
Ok... this a tattoo... which contains somthing, as I came to know, is in kanji.. I'm not sure.
and it is probably someones name....could anybody please help me spell it out in English? help will be appreciated.

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Uncle Frank;471225 said:
Hope I didn't get it upside down?
Uncle Frank
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It is upside-down. The kanji is 悪 and means "evil". It's pronounced "aku". It also means "bad" if you write it as 悪い and pronounce it as "warui".
 
OK put it the other way for you.

Looks like there was a bit of artistic variation.

Uncle Frank
 
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Hello,

I´m a newbie here and I already have a question.
Could anyone translate this for me?

Thank you very much!
 
It is read by itself HO-MA-RE and means "honor".
 
Kyoo said:
Could someone translate this to English, please? I have no idea what it means.
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「立夏だけを信じていたのに」

The best I can manage is "...so that I believed only in the first day of summer" but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Does it to you based on whatever context you got it from? Maybe one of the more advanced people can give it a shot.
 
realized this might be better off in the kanji section so -

Hello, looking for a translation into Kanji for a painting I'm doing. The phrase I'm looking for reads: "unification of body mind and soul". Most appreciated!
 
I wanted to know what happy birthday was in Japanese, so I put it in an online translation machine thingie and this is what came out of it:
誕生日おめでとう

But...I don't trust those translation machines, so can someone tell me if it's the right way to write Happy birthday. And if it's false....how should I write it??
 
Aslira;479385 said:
I wanted to know what happy birthday was in Japanese, so I put it in an online translation machine thingie and this is what came out of it:
誕生日おめでとう

But...I don't trust those translation machines, so can someone tell me if it's the right way to write Happy birthday. And if it's false....how should I write it??
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Online translation is not reliable, but for once it seems to have given you the correct answer! ;-)
お誕生日おめでとう means "Happy Birthday". (otanjoubi omedetou)
 
Wow....then I guess this is the first time I got a good online translation..thank you for confirming it:-)
 
Hi! I'm trying to translate these Chinese names into Japanese romaji, so I was wondering if it would be possible for anyone to help me?
清海
佐助
美和
果心
叶
斗輪
 
If they're Chinese names, wouldn't it make more sense to get them in Chinese pinyin?
 
JimmySeal said:
If they're Chinese names, wouldn't it make more sense to get them in Chinese pinyin?
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Unfortunately, it was from a comic translated into Chinese, and I was hoping to find out how you would pronounce them in japanese... wouldn't the chinese writing be the same as kanji? Except pronounced differently? I'm not sure, but I thought so... ^_^;
 

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