Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Lucky?

I saw this photo in someone's MySpace page. He has since then closed his MySpace account, but the photo is still available at photopile.com.


http://www.photopile.com/photos/LORDCHINO/Tattoos/243692.jpg

I assume the last character is 幸, which means "fortunate" or "lucky".

Notice his username "Lord Chino"? I am unsure about if he is referring to

1. Trousers made from coarse twilled cotton fabric
2. Spanish word for Chinese
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 23, 2006 at 1:28 PM

    Looks like キモ to me, although it doesn't make much sense...

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  2. AlanAugust 23, 2006 at 1:38 PM

    If I am not mistaken, the Chinese simplified form of the second character is 荣, as opposed to 栄 which is the Japanese simplified form. This suggests that the calligraphy is Japanese and not Chinese. The third character is still not legible as a Japanese character, though. Something is clearly missing.

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  3. Zach C.August 23, 2006 at 6:40 PM

    Quoting Alan:
    "Something is clearly missing."

    I vote "knowledge of the language".

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  4. Castle GreyskullAugust 23, 2006 at 8:27 PM

    It doesn't look like キモ to me. Incidentally in Japanese young people now tend to contract 気持ち悪い （kimochi warui)meaning disgusting to 気もい (kimoi)
    or when expressed with emotion the final i gets cut off making it simply
    キモ　(kimo!)

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  5. ulasAugust 25, 2006 at 5:37 PM

    It looks more like a badly written 老 (J=Roo, meaning: old-elderly)

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  6. JPAugust 25, 2006 at 8:00 PM

    My wife agreed with the first comment that it looks like キモ, but I agree with tian that it was probably a poor attempt at 幸.

    The real tragedy is that while his intention ostensibly was to "look cool", the calligraphy is incredibly bad. Even the character which is clearly legible as 信 has a dian at the top of the right-half of the character which seems to go diagonally from upper right down to the left. Awful, simply awful. Refund. Oops, too late.

    I think a tattoo artist should at least be able to faithfully reproduce a piece of calligraphic art. Have they tried the "InterWeb"?

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  7. ChrisAugust 28, 2006 at 7:07 PM

    I thought it looked like キチ, but the second charecter hooks the wrong way. I thought it looked more like a nice sweeping stroke in the wrong direction, instead of a hook. Unfortunately I don't have any meaning to attach to kiti.

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  8. BrianSeptember 1, 2006 at 10:55 PM

    I don't know what the tattoo artist was attempting to spell with the last 2"characters",but to me,it looks like ホモ(katakana pronounced as homo).The term ホモ is used by the Japanese in a derogatory way to describe(surprise!)homosexuals...

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