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It looks like the characters in that tattoo are mirrored. If I'm not mistaken, they are 社 (used for words like society and agency) and 克 (with many meanings, I've mostly seen it a "gram" as in kilogram).

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18 hours ago, Geiko said:

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Nice one, I was actually trying to figure out which name those characters could've been used for but didn't realised it was part of his username.

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福 fú happiness, fortune

米 mǐ rice

特 tè special

It makes no sense, I'm afraid. Perhaps it was intended as a name that sounds like Fu-mi-te? Or 'good luck Mitt'? The calligraphy of the last two characters is alright, the 福 misses a dot and is in a slightly different style, which makes the whole thing look a little off.

 

It doesn't say anything rude or insulting, but I'm afraid that's the only good news.

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3 hours ago, Lu said:

福 fú happiness, fortune

米 mǐ rice

特 tè special

It makes no sense, I'm afraid. Perhaps it was intended as a name that sounds like Fu-mi-te? Or 'good luck Mitt'? The calligraphy of the last two characters is alright, the 福 misses a dot and is in a slightly different style, which makes the whole thing look a little off.

 

It doesn't say anything rude or insulting, but I'm afraid that's the only good news.

Thank you Lu for the translation! To be honest I'm guessing a tattoo of a friend, because he doesn't want to tell me. 

He said that the top sign is indeed hapiness/fortune and the bottom 2 signs should form a word or a person's name. At the moment Mi-te or Mitt doesn't mean a thing to me in Dutch (we speak Dutch).  Again thanks for the help.

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I speak Dutch too, but that's not helping. Mitte? Misspelled Mieke? Does the friend have a girlfriend or ex (or mom or daughter, or boyfriend) with a name that sounds like Mi-te?

 

Or just leave it be, perhaps he knows it's wrong and doesn't want to make too big a deal of it. He could get that 福 fixed though, it just needs an extra dot.

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