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little help for my tattoo

juliet89

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hello everybody! I'm going to have a tattoo done soon and I'd like to include some kanji in it.
the words i'd like to insert are freedom, truth and strenght, here's what I found surfing the net, are theese correct? thank you all for you help!!
(i attached the files i found)

I have a question about the kanji meaning strenght, is it inner or physical strenght? I'd prefer inner strenght in fact.... thanks again!!
 

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Inner strength is

インナー力

This would make a great tattoo. Awesome idea.
 
thank you orochi! and how about the other two? are those correct for those meanings? tnx again!
 
Yes, they are close enough. This should be a big hit.
 
インナー is simply the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "inner":

イ i
ン n
ナ na
ー long vowel for previous syllable in this case: a

Pronounced: een.nahh (sorry I'd put this in IPA if I knew the right IPA symbols to use for the sounds, I apologize for being in a country that doesn't use the IPA in its dictionaries)

Sorry about that. Not everyone likes these kinds of questions as you can see in this thread:
Want a Kanji tattoo? Read before you ask!

The thing is that Japanese isn't usually as simple as just picking a character and have it mean exactly what you want it to mean. Often it requires other characters (kanji and / or kana) to achieve the desired meaning.

Sometimes even though a character means something, doesn't necessarily mean it can be used by itself to mean that particular word. An example would be the character 半 (han) which itself means "half", but to say "half" you would use the word 半分 (hanbun).

It's sort of like rather than each character being an exact representation of something, they represent certain ideas. It's really all about semantics. Just like you may have two different words that mean the same thing, but they feel different to use because of the semantics attached to them.

I'll give you my best guess as to what you're looking for, but please realize that I'm using a dictionary, not doing this from direct knowledge and you should get a second opinion on these:

力 itself means "power" or "strength"
念力 (nenriki) means willpower or psychokinesis
意志力 (ishiryoku) also means willpower but I don't know the difference between these words.

自 itself means "self"
自由 (jiyuu) means freedom

実 itself means "real"
真実 (shinjitsu) means truth (as in "fact")
誠実さ (seijitsusa) means sincerity (it may or may not require the final さ (sa)) and I looked it up because you were looking for inner peace so I thought you might mean truth in a more...abstract sense.

Like I said, please get a second opinion on these. Also, if you're planning on getting them close together, make sure they don't mean something different as a whole.

Also remember (if you plan on going to Japan at least) that I believe you can not use public baths or possibly onsen (hot springs) either if you have tattoos.

Also I apologize again.

...Also....I say "also" a lot, hmm.
 
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angel valis your answer was really helpful. I hadn't read that thread, so I apologize for that. Anyway I think that orochi would have just answered me with the thread you linked me. but what can I do, being polite isn't everybody's first choiche. I am currently deciding what language I want to include in my tattoo and japanese is one of these as I am fascinated and charmed with the rich and complex japanese culture, so I was just looking for a little help here, which you gave me so, thanks again! your answer was very enlightening!!
 
Sorry about that. I think there was a problem with the character conversion. I will ask the computer store to check my keyboard. Thanks.
 
What's wrong with 根性 ?
 
Also don't believe anyone that recommends you 馬鹿(baka) or 外人(gaijin). Each one mean "silly" and "foreigner". There's some variations for baka.

By the way, the meaning for 根性 is http://tangorin.com/general/根性.
 
ガッツ would make a fab tattoo.
You really have to do something with that keyboard.
Hey, wait, Is THAT you on the picture?. 素敵な女神様、すみません。
 
I would recommend double checking the kanji here Jisho.org. as it appears you cant trust some of the members on this forum to let people make their mistakes without making it worse.
 
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