My tattoo-designs: The japanese word for "human emotions"

My tattoo-designs: the japanese word for "human emotions" (喜怒哀楽, hiragana: きどあいらく, reading: kidoairaku).

The original tattoo-design. For more Kanji-tattoo-designs visit my website, seiza.ro.

Kanji meanings (from left to right): 1. 喜 Joy, delight. 2. 怒 Angry. 3. 哀 Sorrow, grief. 4. 楽 Good mood, comfort, pleasure. taken together, these four kanji mean "human emotions".

If you use any of my tattoo-designs as a model / inspiration / starting-point for a tattoo you might consider sending me some photos of the tattoo once it's complete. Thank you in advance.

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A failed tattoo? Not necessarily.

The tattoo in the picture below is often given as an example of a failed tattoo (I've founded the same confusion even on hanzismatter.blogspot, a blog which belongs to someone who seems to have vast knowledge of Chinese and Japanese languages).

If we consider only the Chinese reading of these characters, the tattoo's meaning is "fool, sucker" - 呆 (pronunciation: dai with the first tone) = dull; dull-minded, simple, stupid; 子 (pronunciation: zi with the third tone) = offspring, child; together they form the word 呆子 (daizi) which means "fool, stupid, sucker".

On the other hand, in Japanese 呆子 is just one of the nearly 300 ways (I know, it's hard to believe that there are really that many) to write the popular name "Akiko".

In conclusion, this is not (such) a failed tattoo.

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Tribal heart tattoo

Hi! In this post I'll present you two of my favorites tattoos:

Tribal heart tattoo 1. Ideogram meaning: 失恋 disappointed love / broken heart / unrequited love. Japanese: kanji: 失恋; hiragana: しつれん; reading: shitsuren. Simplified chinese: Hànzì: 失恋; pinyin: shī​liàn

Tribal heart tattoo 2. Ideogram meaning: 失恋 disappointed love / broken heart / unrequited love. Japanese: kanji: 失恋; hiragana: しつれん; reading: shitsuren. Simplified chinese: Hànzì: 失恋; pinyin: shī​liàn

Usually when I draw a tattoo I try to integrate one or more ideograms (either japanese Kanji or chinese Hanzi) in various tribal or floral patterns. In this case, I've used some tribal-style hearts and the word 失恋 (disappointed love / unrequited love / to lose one's love / being lovelorn).
This word (失恋) has the same meaning both in chinese and in japanese (of course, the pronunciations are different: the japanese pronunciation is shitsuren and the chinese pronunciation is shīliàn - first tone and the fourth tone).

If you like these two tattoos you can find them (and many others) on my website, www.seiza.ro.

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Tribal scorpion tattoo

My last tattoo design: a scorpion holding a rose between his pincers:

The text is written in chinese: 致命的愛 (reading: zhìmìng de ài) in and means fatal love (or deadly love).

For more tattoos designs with scorpions visit my website, seiza.ro

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Wu xing tattoos

Tattoo design: the Wu Xing elements. In the middle is depicted the ideogram of the Element of Fire (火, huǒ).

For more tattoos designs with the Wu Xing ideograms visit our website, seiza.ro

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