Kanji tattoo like "brother" "sister" "father"

Kanji tattoo "brother"

kanji tattoo "brothers"

Popular kanji tattoo "brother" or "brothers" is strange to us Japanese.


I examine "brother tattoo" quickly with google.
And I found phrase such as " brother infinity", "brother's keeper", "brother to the end", "brothers never let go.", " My heart starts to pound to the rhythm of yours." and so on.

I guess that this word "brother" or "brothers" has such above meanings.
But this word can't give us such meanings, such impressions.
In Japanese, the word meaning something concrete merely impresses the meaning of its own to us.
Etching "兄弟" is equal to etching "desk" to us.
We can't understand what message you want to give to the word.

When we see this word on your skin, we think Why you etched such a common, familiar word into your skin.

Then, how you make them cool ?

In most case, you want to tell " The emotion to somebody that you love ", I think.
If so, you can make your tattoo more stylish.

The examples are shown below.

brothers with symbol

brothers with English

With symbol or English, Your tattoo is easy to understand to us.
When we see tattoos like this , we guess that you have to love your brother.






You want to do without them ?

Maybe, This is better.

”兄弟愛" is pronounced "kyodaiai".
Kyodaiai means brothers loves each other.
This is suitable to Japanese grammar.
But "父愛", "母愛", "兄愛”, "弟愛", and so on are not suitable.
(父＝father, 母＝mother, 兄＝elder brother, 弟＝younger brother)
We must put the word which means two or more people Before "愛"
For example, "家族愛", "隣人愛", "友愛" and so on.
(家族＝family, 隣人=neighbors, 友=friends )

Have a good tattoo life !