Translation - 爱活学习

[Don_Horhe]

爱活学习

What does 爱活 mean? I saw this in a picture of a tattoo on another forum.

[cherrytea]

Don, I think maybe it's a wrong phrase, for I have never seen such words before

[imron]

Haha, wouldn't be the first time someone got some meaningless phrase tattooed in Chinese.

[Don_Horhe]

Yeah, I though that too and I told the guy I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up meaning nothing, although Google turns up quite a few results of 爱活.

I forgot to mention that he asked his question in the Japanese section, not the Chinese (it's a university forum), but I don't think this phrase is in Japanese.

[imron]

Yeah, but if you actually look at the results google returns, you'll see they're all things like: 为爱活下去, or similar, where there is a split between 爱 and 活, and they're not really part of the same word.

[Don_Horhe]

One of the other replies said that it was in Japanese and interprets it as "sex instructor", saying that in Japanese 爱活 "aikatsu" means "making love" and 学习 "gakushuu" has the same meaning in Chinese. Even if this is correct, which I personally doubt, it'd still be a stupid tattoo, like that guy who tattooed 糖醋肉 in the link you gave earlier.

[HashiriKata]

in Japanese 爱活 "aikatsu" means "making love"

I don't think so. And there's no such thing as "爱活学习" in Japanese, in this form in any case.

[ABCinChina]

I've figured it out! 爱活学习 means "love to live and learn".

Or a comparable English phrase could be "work hard, play hard".

[creamyhorror]

I've figured it out! 爱活学习 means "love to live and learn".

I'm not sure if you're serious, but if you are, that's definitely not right. You could interpret it as "the study of loving life" or "learning to love life", but it's still a stretch and unnatural-sounding.

[renzhe]

Could it be 爱好学习, where 好 is misspelt like 浩?

Nevermind, it's 活...