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Can anyone translate this symbol, or know someone who can?
Any help would be appreciated…drunken tattoos are the worst..
Translation and comment follows.
This (very mangled character) can be spelled [ KI ] with Romanized Japanese and pronounced in English similar to [ KEY ].
Examples of how this character can be read in Japanese in combination with another character and/or used as an individual tattoo are:
– 兄 貴 > 兄 = ANI + 貴 = KI = ANIKI and translated to English as [ one’s senior; one’s elder brother ]. Frequently used by new/just initiated/younger/junior Yakuza as a term of familiarity and respect when speaking to their elder, experienced, higher ranked brothers. By itself not in combination with another character [ 貴 ] can be translated as precious; value; prize; esteem; honor and used as a suffix as it is with [ 兄 + 貴 ]
– 貴族 > 貴 = KI + 族 = ZOKU = KIZOKU and translated to English as [ noble; aristocrat ].
– 貴殿 > 貴 = KI + 殿 = DEN = KIDEN and translated to English as [ YOU ] and primarily used by Japanese men in letters to their male equals or superiors
– Example email from a certain individual addressed to a business associate using [ KIDEN ] showing his respect.
– 熱い日が続きますが、[ 貴殿 ] におかれましては、益々、ご盛栄の事と存じ上げます。
– Chinese variant > 贵
Respect.
It looks like you got lucky, even mangled it was translated and had a decent meaning. Hopefully it is small, a professional could clean it up to a certain degree, or get it covered up.
Off topic. It *does* look like marker pen, are you having a bit ‘o fun with us? 😉 If not I hope it isn’t ink from a pen.
Completely off topic. The first thing I thought looking at it, is that it looks like a pissed off E.T with funky ribs giving the one fingered salute to someone. No offense, you could actually make something interesting out of that…
Being serious now, I hope you can get it fixed if it is a real tattoo, on second thought a cover up would be best. The lines are so close that even with a good rework areas of it would blur together as time goes by. Best of luck!
Check out oedozakura’s Albums for unmangled [ KI ], dragons, gods, and female demons.
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LOL…It seem like no one really know what its mean…it is a taiwan’s chinese character and its mean “expensive”…with the “?” its mean “was it expensive”…hope this will help you guys pull out from the bush….chaoz!;)
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