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mookaloid - 1/10/07 at 04:55 PM

Anyone here know anyone Chinese or Japanese?

A 'friend' has this tattoo and I would like to know what it means

Cheers

Mark


tat
tat


ReMan - 1/10/07 at 04:58 PM

King Prawn Chow Mein?



I have a similar one myself and made sure it was indipendantly verified, before it was inked for that very reason!!


Howlor - 1/10/07 at 04:59 PM

Fook Face Mark


theconrodkid - 1/10/07 at 05:01 PM

ive sent it to a chinese speaking friend of mine,let ya know what she says


mookaloid - 1/10/07 at 05:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid
ive sent it to a chinese speaking friend of mine,let ya know what she says


Thank you Mr Conrod much more helpful than Howlor there

Cheers

Mark


Volvorsport - 1/10/07 at 05:33 PM

on a female it means 'easy' .


dave1888 - 1/10/07 at 05:50 PM

Looks like initials E K


Project7 - 1/10/07 at 05:53 PM

this might help

http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese-symbols.htm


Big Daz - 1/10/07 at 06:04 PM

Its the chinese symbol for "Dragon"
HTH

Daz


chrisg - 1/10/07 at 06:38 PM

it looks like the aincient Chinese symbol for septicaemia to me.

Cheers

Chris


ken555 - 1/10/07 at 07:06 PM

This many sound crazy, but my wife is Chinese so it's correct. i.e. I'm not going to argue with her

Its the word for between 7 and 9 in the morning. Prononuced "Sun" in Cantonese or "Chen" in Mandarin.

Her guess it means first thing in the morning so "dawn" seems to be the best fit, but it doesn't really make sense on it's own.


Confused but excited. - 1/10/07 at 08:23 PM

The translation into English, will be '8' then.


joneh - 1/10/07 at 08:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ken555
This many sound crazy, but my wife is Chinese so it's correct. i.e. I'm not going to argue with her

Its the word for between 7 and 9 in the morning. Prononuced "Sun" in Cantonese or "Chen" in Mandarin.

Her guess it means first thing in the morning so "dawn" seems to be the best fit, but it doesn't really make sense on it's own.


Its not on the crack of dawn is it? Sorry.


James - 2/10/07 at 07:15 AM

quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
it looks like the aincient Chinese symbol for septicaemia to me.

Cheers

Chris


Classic!


02GF74 - 2/10/07 at 08:42 AM

it means "brummie twonk" - you have posted it upside down!


Dingz - 2/10/07 at 09:50 AM

A Chinese lady I work with says:-

It means the fifth of twelve Earthly Branches which in combination with Heavenly Stems were used by the ancients to designate years, months and days.

It can also mean the period of the day from 7:00 am to 9 am.

It is normally a name for a boy.
A nice name.


DarrenW - 2/10/07 at 10:23 AM

I have just had it translated by my Chinese colleague as well. Confirms what has already been said. Here is his reply

Hi Darren:
It is right.

There are four different meanings about this character.

1. The fifth of the twelve earth branches, which stands for dragon.
2. Using it as time, for example ‘ ~ hour ‘ means 7am to 9am.
3. General name of sun, moon and stars.
4. Means morning.

Rick


mookaloid - 2/10/07 at 10:56 AM

Thanks everyone that's great - we thought it was dragon but we weren't sure.

Also we weren't sure if it was Chinese or some other language so that's helped.

Is it a particular style anyone?

Cheers

mark


Dingz - 3/10/07 at 10:49 PM

BTW. the Chinese Lady that told me what it meant also said she had seen an English guy with a prominent Chinese tattoo that said 'rice'
Must have thought it looked good at the local takeaway!