Saturday, September 10, 2005

Tiger, According to the Flash Book


http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeyplaid/34018004/

The character shown in the photo is far from 虎 (tiger). Since it was shown in the tattoo template book, then it must be correct, rignt?

Wrong.

Another one bites the dust, I mean needle.


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15 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2005 at 7:02 PM

    How do you know it wasn't trying to be "ghost"

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  2. JoshSeptember 10, 2005 at 7:14 PM

    虎 +　鬼 hahah

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  3. tianSeptember 10, 2005 at 10:56 PM

    Anonymous,

    if you click on the photo, it would link you to the original and it has a caption that says:

    "Kanji meaning "tiger" (according to the flash book, anyway)"

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  4. gameboyguy13September 11, 2005 at 2:18 AM

    What does the pictured kanji/hanzi mean (if anything)?

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  5. LuSeptember 11, 2005 at 2:09 PM

    Gameboyguy: the character itself doesn't mean anything, it looks most like a hybrid between 'tiger' and 'ghost, devil'.

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  6. GlennSeptember 11, 2005 at 4:03 PM

    It also looks a little bit like 兔 to me. Am I crazy?

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2005 at 5:27 PM

    looks as far away from ghost as tiger. Looks more like "man" with something on his head

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2005 at 8:00 PM

    Maybe he works on a farm, in "Field Nine" [/sarcasm]

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  9. laobanSeptember 11, 2005 at 11:54 PM

    Now I'm really confused. Perhaps this is the scenario. Whoever was copying tiger got distracted by the rabbit symbol. Perhaps the very bad penmanship is a clue that it's a copy of a copy or that they were seeing ghosts as they tried to do it.

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  10. GlennSeptember 12, 2005 at 1:44 AM

    Anon: No one writes "man" like that.

    My guess is that whoever made the mistake was looking at the characters from the Chinese zodiac, which would place 虎 and 兔 right next to each other, and while looking back and forth, mistook parts of 兔 and used it for 虎.

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  11. RSeptember 12, 2005 at 7:02 AM

    It may not be exactly 男 but it's not *exactly* anything, is it?

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  12. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2005 at 9:50 AM

    Do people think that using a stencil might be a sign of a lazy tattooist?
    I think it would be the safest way to do it myself, and the comments here kinda prove it.
    No matter how many times you draw an image, freehand leaves it wide open for mistakes.

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  13. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2005 at 5:19 AM

    oh dear....BIG mistake
    it's not like there was just a dot missing or something (even that is inexcusable)...but this is unfixable!!

    although it does make me laugh at his stupidity

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  14. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2005 at 1:38 PM

    Tian, I think you meant "right" and not "rignt". Right? Pot, kettle, etc, etc.

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  15. tianSeptember 15, 2005 at 1:40 PM

    I intentionally wrote "rignt" instead of "right".

    It was an inside joke.

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