The picture of the hard-bitten tough guy with the tattoo for “mom” or “mother” is kinda a cliche. In fact, it’s so much of a cliche that it is ripe for being referenced in current day tattoos in a variety of contexts. One of those contexts is to use the Japanese symbol for mother instead …
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If you “Kanji tattoos” in Japanese, you get a bunch of sites devoted to making fun of all the foreigners with ridiculous, cringey tattoos. This fact should make all those thinking about daubing themselves in a little Asian ink to take pause for thought. There are a lot of horror stories out there. And while …
When trying to find a Japanese symbol for pain, there are a few options. Each of these has different ways that they are used and nuances to them. The closest equivalent Japanese kanji symbols for the English word “pain” are: 1. 痛 2.辛 3.疼 1. 痛い Itai (hurt) The most common word that you hear …
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The closest equivalent Japanese kanji symbols for the English word “family” are: 家族 kazoku (family) It is actually really common for people to want to express a love of “family” in their tattoos. This leads many people to get the Japanese word for family 家族 inked in as a design. It is also quite common to …
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I had a discussion with my Japanese friend about whether Kanji tattoos are cool and, indeed, what makes a cool tattoo. Hopefully, this will go some way to answering some of the questions that a person that may be considering a tattoo with Japanese lettering might have. The discussion is in interview format and split …
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The closest equivalent Japanese kanji symbols for the English word “peace” are: 平和 heiwa (Peace) The concept of “peace” is a fairly universally loved one (in principle anyway!) The word 平和 ai could be considered a fairly close equivalent of our English word “peace”, in it’s “world peace 4 eva” sense. That being said, it …
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愛 Ai (Love) The concept of love, as abstract, vague and open to interpretation as it is, is one of the most wide spread, and widely supported, human ideas. The word 愛 ai actually matches up pretty well with the English word, in that it can imply either a universal, platonic kind of love, or …
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The closest equivalent Japanese kanji symbol for dream is: 夢 This is one of the Chinese Characters where it’s meaning is actually very close to the English equivalent – which is not always the case! It is one of the top 10 most popular Chinese character & kanji tattoos for people to get. Whether this …
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If you do a search in Japanese on the internet for Chinese Character tattoos or Japanese letter tattoos, you get a bunch of pages dedicated to how embarrassing a lot of the words and designs that people get are. That’s not what you want. Don’t be one of those people featured on a Japanese website …
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