F*'d up Kanji tattoos

[suko]

Harisenbon wrote:
My favorite was the guy I saw at Hot Topic with 精子 on his neck. He said it meant "Spirit Child"

lol, i must confess i too translated them individually... was this guy gay? this made my evening!
I can't believe the incompetance of some people when it comes to Japanese... *sigh* some people

[anikaliki]

Harisenbon wrote:
My favorite was the guy I saw at Hot Topic with 精子 on his neck. He said it meant "Spirit Child"

I just spit my drink all over my keyboard. I'm still laughing though.

[flammable hippo]

Harisenbon wrote:
My favorite was the guy I saw at Hot Topic with 精子 on his neck. He said it meant "Spirit Child"

Pleeeeease say you told him what it really meant. lol. His facial expression would have been priceless.

[pokopenian]

Well then... I first looked up 精子 on google translate and it said "Spermatozoon" ?????? So then I looked it up on wwwjdic and I found what it really means...

[jziemba]

Harisenbon wrote:
My favorite was the guy I saw at Hot Topic with 精子 on his neck. He said it meant "Spirit Child"

well, maybe he likes the warm feeling of it on his neck. :p

[Machina Maw]

jziemba wrote:

Harisenbon wrote:
My favorite was the guy I saw at Hot Topic with 精子 on his neck. He said it meant "Spirit Child"

well, maybe he likes the warm feeling of it on his neck. :p

HAHAHA. Oh god. I can't breathe~

...精子... *dies laughing*

[ComradeJoe]

Man, that's ludicrous!
It reminds me a lot of a girl who had 水子 tattooed on her forearm, and said it meant "child of the sea". /evil chuckle

[AJBryant]

oh, my....




Tony

[tanuki]

jziemba wrote:

Harisenbon wrote:
My favorite was the guy I saw at Hot Topic with 精子 on his neck. He said it meant "Spirit Child"

well, maybe he likes the warm feeling of it on his neck. :p

Thank you, that made my day. Really.

[nick-san]

Well, can't it technically mean that if the kanji are seperated (as in not one word)?

[ACPalomino]

This one is supposed to be Chinese. Can anyone translate it for me?

[nick-san]

I can't really see it well. Can you enlarge the pic at all?

[seiryuu]

nick-san wrote:
Well, can't it technically mean that if the kanji are seperated (as in not one word)?

They have separate meanings if they were separated, but there are just some things that can't be combined. This is an example.

[tanuki]

"Man" and "juice" also have separate, innocuous meanings.

(Sorry, just trying to get a point across.)

[chikara]

ACPalomino wrote:
This one is supposed to be Chinese. Can anyone translate it for me?

平和 (へいわ) peace; harmony

Friends of mine bought a fountain that consisted of a rectangular sandstone block with the above two characters chiselled in it. The water ran down the face of the block over the characters. They asked me to translate it for them. Only problem was 和 was missing stroke number 1

愛和 (あいわ) ?? Well there is an 愛和クリニック