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i have a tattoo and i just want to make sure it says wat its suppose to say...i cant find it nowhere on the internet....can u plz let me no wat this means...thanks
 

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It does not say anything, at least in Japanese because - I'm sorry to tell you - such a letter does not exist in Japanese language. (And perhaps in Chinese either.)
 
So its not kanji then....perhaps its another language ?
 
it's not exist in Japanese ,I didn't see it before !!
 
So its not kanji then....perhaps its another language ?

I hope so since you've already got it on your body... but it could be one of those gibberish kanji. Kanji tattoo done by the "artists" who do not have any knowledge of the language so often got mirrored, warped, twisted, etc.
Hanzi Smatter 一知半解
(But if the letter does not exist, at least it does not mean anything silly or offending, it's just a design - if such an idea can be of any comfort.)
 
it has a similar stroke style to kanji, but the arrangement, direction, and constituent parts are not found in any kanji. one part looks like something between 草冠 (the name for the part on top of the first character) and a warped version of 代... the other part looks like the bottom half of 易, backwards and turned 90 degrees.
 
From Heisig, it reminds me of "measuring box" and yeah, some weird version of 易.
 
I agree with undrentide that that's what happened to you.

Looking at it in the positive light, you should be relieved that it's not anything offensive or idiotic like some people get on their skins!
 
I'm disappointed in all of you. Take a look at it again. It is very obviously 物, but mirrored and rotated ccw.

Unfortunately, the only people stupid enough to get a tattoo like this to begin with are also too stupid to figure out to ask before they get something like this done. Yeah, OP.....I called you stupid. Mrs. Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does", and you did stupid.
 
I'm disappointed in all of you. Take a look at it again. It is very obviously 物, but mirrored and rotated ccw.

Ahhh!! Sugoi, Mike-san!
*grovels in the presence of the Sage*
 

Hats off to you, Mike-san!!
 
Thanks, ladies!

So when he lowers his arm, he has the word "thing" in Japanese on his arm, upside-down and in a mirror image. (I wonder what he thought it said....he didn't tell us).

This one ought to win some sort of award for Effed Up Stoopid Kanji Tattoo.
 
need help translating this tattoo

someone said that this means success..i look online and i dont see this meaning success....ii know there are alot of ways to write different words....does it really mean success...if not what does it really mean
 

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someone said that this means success..i look online and i dont see this meaning success....ii know there are alot of ways to write different words....does it really mean success...if not what does it really mean
If you can't read kanji on your PC, Mike-san said like this.


Thus, it means , not "thing."
 
I'm impressed that you were able to do that!
 
If you can't read kanji on your PC, Mike-san said like this.

Thus, it means , not "thing."

You have just made my day, and astounded me by the total incompetence of that tattooist.
 
I'm impressed, too, Toritoribe-san!
I hope there is a chance for me to try out the same.

Two members with different IDs but "similar names and locales"?

Threads merged and closed.
 
how to translate "live & learn"

how do you translate "live & learn" in kanji...i want to get it as a tattoo
 
Not (entirely) in kanji, but the best one I've found from a short Google search is 生きていれば学べる.

From ことわざの部屋

長生きはするものだ is the one offered in the dictionaries I saw, but it's not quite the same thing. I suppose the one above will do the trick.
 
If the "live and learn" guy is still lurking, this is my closest to kanji tattoo appropriate suggestion (per closed thread ;-) :

長生きして学べ
 
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