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At firs, it looks like pure gibberish - mixed Japanese and Chinese characters:
厉 カ ネ 羊
厉 カ ネ 羊
But looking more carefully, perhaps the idiot started with these characters:
励祥
But then he decided to switch from horizontal to vertical writing, and then split up the characters at the wrong places, making two characters into four.
Hopeless!
Just to be weird I put it through Babel Fish.
ReplyDeleteJapanese to English comes off as "Encouragement lucky occurrence"
Both forms of Chinese to English say "Urges auspicious".
Sounds like someone used a translator program but got something completely odd.. Then nailed it onto their skin for eternity.
I had to put the original through BabelFish, Chinese and Japanese it ended up as
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That's truly hilarious!
I'm going waaaay out on a limb here and going to say that it's gibberish font meant to be read 'h A t E' in roman letters. Anyone else see this?
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ReplyDeleteIf it is supposed to be 励祥, well my Japanese dictionary shows no such word. Even separately, it's odd.
ReplyDelete励まし hagemashi - "encouragement"
祥 saga/shou - must be added to other words but means usually to indicate something happy occurred so you want to celebrate and remember the date, like an anniversary
Maybe it was supposed to be 理想 which means "ideal", because 励祥 when read out loud sounds the same. Too bad these two random (and wrong) characters were used instead.
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