milkbone Posted June 30, 2008 at 03:53 PM Report Share Posted June 30, 2008 at 03:53 PM About 8 years ago I got this tattoo.I found a dictonary that had translations in it and loved this one. My name is andrew which christian meaning is strong. well i printed out 6 pages of char for strong. went through and crossed out ones i didn't like every few weeks for a month i came up with this as my favorite. there are so many different meanings for strong that i think this is the one that means 'strong like iron". But for some reason i have second guessed myself and i don't know. Any help would be helpful i can't find online dictonary to help me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted July 1, 2008 at 02:05 AM Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 at 02:05 AM IMO the upper half of the tattoo is ok but the lower right of the lower half is a bit distorted. It is supposed to look like a "v". But on the whole the tattoo is ok. As to the word, according to my search on the internet, it is a variant of a rare character. This is what is on your arm - This is the original rare character (minute difference which may be hard to recognise for untrained eyes) - On-line dictionary entry (this is a Taiwan dictionary) -> http://140.111.1.40/yitic/frc/frc00763.htm The word means "健", i.e. physically strong. The word is rare to me but maybe some learned members would point out that the word is not that rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkbone Posted July 1, 2008 at 03:07 AM Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 at 03:07 AM Thank you very much skylee for you time. I knew it ment strong but couldn't exactly remember now I will never forget. Again thank you so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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