A friend of mine got this Tattoo. I assume the symbols are Chinese, what does it translate into?
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As an example, the character that another poster said was "rice" is also an abbreviation for America in Japanese.
There are lots of tools on the web that might be able to help you (or him)...
Mandarin Character Dictionary:
http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html
Chinese dictionary where you can look up by number of strokes, radicals, etc.: http://dictionary.kaide.net/
Japanese Kanji Dictionary: (you don't even need to know the meaning of a character, you can look up characters by the number of strokes, etc.):
http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html
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M$I know Chinese.
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Not that I doubt that you speak Chinese, but could you provide some type of translation with a link to the characters online? After all, I have the feeling the guy is going to want to see it with his own eyes if the characters do not mean what he thinks it means.
Sigh. I'm sure he does, but there are god knows how many characters in Chinese. I can tell you that the characters connected make no sense so there is no way for me to get all of the characters on the same page. I guess I could give individual meaning for each word if wanted.
布 - Cloth
菜 - vegetables
克 - could mean grams
米 - rice (usually the uncooked rice, or raw rice. Since cooked rice is 飯)
The last character (remember I'm reading right upper to right lower, than left upper to left lower.) I haven't even seen myself, can't help on that one. I'm pretty sure it is Chinese because while Japanese uses kanji, they usually won't use it in such succession and if they do, it'd be something easy to identify. Which is also why I said this has to be some sort of pronunciation translation of his name because the string of characters means nothing. And if it was Japanese, they have Katakana to use for foreign word pronunciations.
you may ask this guy, I got it from this blog http://chinesesymboltattoos.net
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M$Kanji are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet (also known as Rōmaji.) The Japanese term kanji literally means "Han characters"
It probably consists of some simple word(s) like champion,monkey, honor, etc
It's often used in tattoo designs.
Most of the characters in the picture are not conversation words.
If I had to venture a guess it says something like honor, strength, and other words associated with heroism.
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I'm also pretty sure the first character means "rice"
Taken from
(see the 3rd character down)
Also keep in mind that the way Japanese and Chinese writing is very rarely left to right it's almost always written up to down.
If you read them from left to right then it sounds like: "Megan Black".
Hope this helps.
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Well, since I can't edit my original answer to add this, I am replying to it..
Well, it seems to translate in japanese... sort of.. it's not a proper sentence as far as I can tell... and it would probably translate in chinese very similarly... I'd assume it's supposed to be japanese.. well, because 1) that was my first impression for various reasons, and 2) because I can find the bottom character on the left side of the picture in Japanese, and not yet in chinese (and the word for tobacco in chinese is not the same character)
From the seeming meaning of the phrase I might suspect he is one of the following:
in the ATF.
a drug dealer
or dedicated to smoking and/or anti-smoking.
It basically translates as:
Announce Greens Bundles (or control) American Tobacco.
My references...
1st character right top:
http://www.saiga-jp.com/cgi-bin/dic.cgi?m=search&sc=0&f=0&j=&g=&e=announce&s=&rt=0&start=1&sid=1238293260_96833
means one of the following: cloth, announce, proclaim, inform
2nd character down on right:
http://www.saiga-jp.com/cgi-bin/dic.cgi?m=search&sc=0&f=0&j=&g=&e=greens&s=&rt=0&start=1&sid=1238295297_1251
means one of the following: greens, vegetables, a side dish
3rd character down on the right:
http://www.saiga-jp.com/cgi-bin/dic.cgi?m=search&sc=0&f=0&j=&g=&e=bundle&s=&rt=0&start=1&sid=1238295297_1251
means: bundle, bunch, sheaf, fagot (wood bundle or possibly cigarette sense), control character as expressed online in the japanese kanji doesn't look quite right... but the character looks better in the chinese dictionaries with the same meanings.. I might just not be finding the right kanji.. but it's close enough -- standard written/electronic character and brush-stroke kanji may be slightly different.
1st character down on left:
http://www.saiga-jp.com/cgi-bin/dic.cgi?m=search&sc=0&f=0&j=&g=&e=rice&s=&rt=0&start=1&sid=1238295297_1251
Top character on left as I already said is rice, but can also be an abbreviation for American. In this context it makes much more sense to mean American.
2nd character down on left:
http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E8%8E%A8
Means: tobacco
I know what what he thinks it means and s5r_nz has had the closest answer so far.
Who the is s5r_nz ?
I received an answer on my email from mahalo answers (for some reason it dose not show up here) from s5r_nz his answer was: "These five characters (from top to bottom, right to left) pronounced together sounds like: "Black Megan". If you read them from left to right then it sounds like: "Megan Black"."
So far this is the closest answer because, Megan is one word that he claimed it to be and black is close but not the word he claims it to be.