ariano Posted April 30, 2014 at 07:48 AM Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 at 07:48 AM I cant belive i found this forum, i have been looking for help for so long time. I have been wanting to make a tattoo for 2 years now but i never knew who i can trust,beacuse i whant to make 4 words in chineese. I would appriciate if anyone could translate these english words for me. Faith Hope Strenght Courage Please help me i whant the chineese symbols for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Posted April 30, 2014 at 10:22 AM Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 at 10:22 AM It is not just as easy as having a list of English words and wanting the characters for them. For example faith is xin ren 信任. it does just mean faith but to mean faithful as in he is a faithful friend you would need zhong cheng de 忠诚的. So if you just want a list of words tattooed on you, it won't really mean exactly what you think. If this is what you want I will try and find find them for but it might be better to rethink what you want. Remember just because it is in Chinese doesn't impart any kind of special power or magic to the words. Think carefully because no one will be able to read it if they don't speak Chinese so people will always be asking "what does that say?" if you are doing it because you think that it will be "private" it will not be to the millions of people who read Chinese.. Always think before you ink and then think again and again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted April 30, 2014 at 12:27 PM Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 at 12:27 PM Faith Hope Strenght Courage Also bear in mind that even if you get translations that you are happy with, do you trust the tattoo artist to get the strokes correct. If someone is not well versed with Chinese writing they are likely to make mistakes. Case in point, you wouldn't want some one to accidentally end up tattooing 'Strenght' instead of 'Strength'. Do you trust someone who doesn't speak the language and who can't write the language not to make a small slip up like that when tattooing you. We see examples all the time on here. You might also find hanzismatter interesting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariano Posted April 30, 2014 at 03:30 PM Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 at 03:30 PM I have been looking around here now for a while and even tho i whant the tattoo so bad for a long time, i will not do it in chinese. You guys have good points and i thank you for that. The tattoo is important to me so i dont whant it to be wrong. THANK YOU 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiana Posted April 30, 2014 at 03:50 PM Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 at 03:50 PM It's a great decision not to do it, ariano! It's for good reasons that people in the know advised you against doing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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