Gibberish Asian Font Mystery

I found this chart on http://hanzismatter.blogspot.jp/

As the site says, We Japanese has no Character, no Kanji for English alphabet.

Besides, some of Characters on this chart isn't used no longer in Japan.


Therefore you must not use this chart.









By the way, then, there is no way to translate English name into Kanji ?

Yes, there is. (but I don't recommend...)

In Japan, long long ago, when we have no letter, we also start to use Chinese character for standing for Japanese pronunciation.
It is 万葉仮名（Manyo-gana).
Manyo-gana gradually changed into ひらがな（Hiragana) .

wikipedia

The change is this left chart.
Upper Kanji is original Manyo-gana.
Mid red letter is a process.
Lower letter is Hiragana.








 In the same way, we changed one part of Chinese character into カタカナ（Katakana).

wikipedia

The left is Katakana.
The red part of right Chinese character is changed into Katakana.











So, If you can write your name with Hiragana, you can also do with Kanji.

For example, If your name is Emilly , Hiragana is ”えみり”, and Katakana is "エミリ".
Accordingly,　You can write your name "衣美利" or "江三利".

On the other hand, We modern Japanese has certain feeling for each Kanji.
The Kanji "三" is not better.
This kanji only means " three ".　
We feel "美" better than "三".
"美" has the meaning of beauty.
"美" is worthy of naming.

How about "衣" and "利"？
"衣" stands for "clothing"
"利" does for "profit", "benefit" or "sharp".

If you line these Kanji like "衣美",　The meaning is " The cloth is beautiful"
We choose Kanji , thinking about such a meaning.

However, "衣美" is not a strange but popular name.
Because some people like the style of "衣", or the nice look of "衣".

Emi is often written as 恵美, 絵美, 映美, 詠美, 恵実, and so on.

"恵" is "blessing" or " -ful ". So 恵実 is "beautiful".
"詠" is "to sing" or "to compose a poem". So 詠美 is "the person to sing about beauty" or "the person to compose a poem of beauty".

Like this, ever for us Japanese, Which Kanji we choose is difficult.

Recently, The people is increasing ,who choose Kanji for his child's name without deep thinking in Japan. Such a name is called "Kirakira-name".
 "Kirakira-name" means "too flashy and nonsense name".

Such being the case in Name, NAMELY, Using Kanji is difficult for us Japanese.

Kanji tattoo -free-

https://www.bme.com/

"free" is a nice word.
I also like this word.

Free is translated into "自由な(adjective)" or "自由に(adverb)" in Japanese.


But We Japanese feel it strange to write only one adjective or adverb as tattoo or on clothing, like this photo.

It's better to choose 自由(freedom).

Otherwise, Japanese recently like using a phrase " ～人".
 This fashion came from "海人 (uminchu)" in Okinawa dialect.
Uminchu means the person who loves the sea and live near the sea.

http://www.uminchu-okinawa.com/

As derivation from this word, We use "山人（yamanchu)"as the person loving Mountain  or "籠球人（rokyujin) "as the person loving basketball and so on.
Look the example below.

http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/maccut/iphonecase-spo12.html

In the same way, We give the word "自由人" to the person loving freedom.
However, 自由人（jiyujin) is older than this fashion. So 自由人 is called not "jiyunchu" but "jiyujin".

http://www.ttrinity.jp/sp/product/863016

Britney Spears tattoo

strange kanji tattoo

This tattoo is located on the front of one of Brit's hips. The kanji in the center of the flower is supposed to stand for mystery.
But the meaning of this kanji actually stands for strange.











Moreover, The kanji "奇" is mainly an adjective , not a noun.
In Japanese, the letter of adjective must go with "okurigana" ,or "hiragana"
For this kanji, "奇" must go with "し" or "しい".
We can write "奇しい" or "奇し"
"奇しい" is pronounced "ayashii".
"奇し" is pronounced "kushi" or "ayashi".
"奇し" is an older style than "奇しい".
This is a correct method of use. 
Yet We don't use only an adjective for etching tattoo.

Otherwise, the letter of adjective must precede the letter of noun in Japanese.
For instance, "奇" is used like "奇人" ,"奇行", "奇形" ,and so on.
"奇人" stands for an eccentric person.
"奇行" is eccentric behavior.
"奇形" is deformity or strange form.

When you want to use the kanji to stand for mystery , You can choose "神秘".

mystery kanji tattoo

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 !

The danger of Kanji Tattoos.

Do you wanna have any Japanese tattoo?
Tattoo is etching languages permanently into your skin.
So In the case Japanese tattoo that you can't read has strange or wrong meaning, embarrassment, regret and laser tattoo removal surgery are often the result. 

 I comment on such wrong tattoos and show you words that we feel correct.

But I'm sorry that I'm not good at English.
This blog's update may be slow.
You should laugh away my slowness and my wrong English. 

By the way, Have you ever seen this website " Japan Talk " that referred to Japanese Tattoo ?
No?  You should read it.

Link: → Japan Talk