Saturday, August 21, 2010

from: marisa r.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:24 AM
subject: My husbands Tattoo

My husband being the hero that he is when stationed over in Bahrain (where tattoo's are illegal) went with some friends drunk to a guys HOUSE!!!! And my husband looked through a book, found the symbol for "strength" and got it.

Thanks so much

Marisa

Photo on 2010-08-19 at 09.51

First of all, the character is mirrored.

If it is be read as one single character 慉, it means "to bring up, to raise".

If they are two characters, 小 and 畜, which means "small livestock or young animal".
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2 comments:

  1. sarahDecember 14, 2010 at 11:47 AM

    It looks like these two people/artists consulted the same bogus book! Only one mirrored it...

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  2. longboatgirlJune 28, 2011 at 7:29 AM

    This looks like another 《周易》 reference, Tian. To wit, 小畜, Hexagram http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Yijing&no=9&lang=en.

    Doesn't excuse it but might explain it!

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