Monday, July 10, 2006

Tattoo Spotted in Russian Night Club

Magazeta in Livejournal.com is a community site about China and Chinese culture written in Russian. Its owner named Ma Yuxi emailed me this photo today:


http://community.livejournal.com/magazeta/68903.html

I have no idea what the second character is supposed to be.


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14 comments:

  1. SarahJuly 10, 2006 at 11:44 PM

    Going with the theme of the other characters, could it be an extremely fucked up 火? Looks like it's missing the strokes on either side if it is...

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  2. AnonymousJuly 11, 2006 at 3:11 AM

    yeah sarah sounds about right there .... assuming they actually had any idea what they were trying to get the tattoo's to say.

    The only other things I could think of (Japanese-wise) would be 'person' or 'to enter' or 'eight' ... but REALLY messed up.

    -J-

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  3. AnonymousJuly 11, 2006 at 5:29 AM

    Yes, it's right. Are you remember "Fifth Ellement"?
    Wind (air), Fire, Earth and Water....
    (by MaYuxi)

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  4. AnonymousJuly 11, 2006 at 9:17 AM

    Either that or a sloppy 人, maybe.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 11, 2006 at 8:46 PM

    It looks like a nutcracker.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 12, 2006 at 12:48 AM

    Agree that it's probably fire. But I like to think it's a pair of jeans.

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  7. AnonymousJuly 12, 2006 at 10:21 AM

    i guess the second one is fire..
    火。。

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  8. JustinJuly 12, 2006 at 6:44 PM

    I concur with everyone on 火. It looks like the left-side stroke bled into the main 人, and the right-side stroke is missing altogether.

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  9. Shell （何健）July 14, 2006 at 3:38 AM

    It might be a simplified er （儿）or a really fucked up ren （人）

    The reason I say it might be a bad ren is because some people would be incined to write it that way because the computer small form looks like its two strokes that meet at a common tip instead of one stroke originating from the other.

    My first comment here. Love your blog!

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  10. AnonymousJuly 15, 2006 at 4:38 AM

    I like how it's basically a total toss-up between 火、人、八、and 入. I would agree that, following the pattern, perhaps it IS 火, but I like entertaining the possibilities.

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  11. ScarletJuly 15, 2006 at 1:30 PM

    It looked like 八 to me, if anything. 水 is pretty horrible too.

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  12. SlaserXJuly 18, 2006 at 10:23 AM

    Given the style of the art, I would guess it to be a severly poorly written 月 (がつ). It's simply missing a stroke, and the top stroke is too thick to be distinguished from the top of the character.

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  13. SlaserXJuly 18, 2006 at 10:25 AM

    I think it just looks like a poorly written 月. If you compare it to the rest of the kanji, it has extremely thick lines, which just likely were slurred together with the top of the character. It is missing a stroke though.

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  14. AnonymousJuly 29, 2006 at 3:53 PM

    I immediately thought it was a bad 人. I certainly hope it's not meant to be 火 - it bears no resemblance whatsoever!

    What a dire tattoo.

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