3 chinese stickers on a cars needs to be translated

[ozelot]

Hi all!

I'm new here, so please be nice if i posted this in the wrong place.

A friend of mine(a girl) has a sticker in the front of her car with 3 symbols on it.

I asked her about what these symbols mean, but she won't tell(her friends doesn't know either).

I took a picture of it, and could really need some help in translating what the symbols mean.

Could anyone help?

[muyongshi]

First one is love, the second is "Dao" as in the Taoism Dao, and has can mean way or method, or even a road, and finally you have "kong" which means space as in emptiness, sky but can also mean free time.

爱 ai

道 dao

空 kong

[ozelot]

Hmm, so could this be a sentence in any way, or just 3 words that doesn't have anything to do with each other?

[skylee]

It is not a sentence. The three characters are not usually related.

[OracleBone]

I guess:

Dao道 is a kernel word of Daoism.

Kong空 is a kernel word of Buddhism.

"爱道空" maybe means "爱是至道，也是至空"。

But 爱 also is a kernel word of Confucianism.

[muyongshi]

They are probably not related other than in a philosophical/religious sense

[roddy]

Guess it could be a botched attempt at 'love the open road' or something.

[muyongshi]

A very botched attempt...