Tattoo >> Meaning

[e3sar]

What does this tattoo means?

http://www.alamuae.com/up/uplong/Tattoo204420650888353.jpg

[Hofmann]

That tattoo does means this.

[iltokyo]

chinese has no this word.it is no a normal chinese word.

and others neam.this word have two word.include "义" and "气".

it mean excessive friendship between two friends.such as they can fight for the other but no considering law.

义气=excessive friendship.

[imron]

Sorry iltokyo, but you are incorrect. 氣 is a normal Chinese character. It is the 繁体 version of 气.

[JonasShaw]

It's a normal word in 繁體中文(Traditional Chinese).

In modern Chinese, it means gas or air.

(ex.空氣air, 氫氣hydrogen, 氧氣oxygen)

Sometimes it means anger.

(ex.真是氣死我了! I am so angry that I could die.)

But in tatoo, it means totally differently.

In wu xia novels (武俠小說), 氣 is similar a kind of mental status or internal power or elemental force.

I think it looks very profound...

I give some examples in manga:lol:

it becomes some kind of energy exist in people in Dragon Ball.

(I dunno 氣 is translated to in English version.)

People can raise their 氣 by trainnig themselves.

And it's one of indicators of a person's fighting level.

Or you can consider it as Chakra in Naruto.

[xianhua]

(I dunno 氣 is translated to in English version.)

The term 'qi' is widely understood by English speakers to mean an invisible energy force.

[HashiriKata]

and others neam.this word have two word.include "义" and "气".

it mean excessive friendship between two friends.such as they can fight for the other but no considering law.

义气=excessive friendship.

I wonder where has iltokyo got all this information. Can you tell how you've come to understand 氣 this way?

[adrianlondon]

I think it was a guess based on not knowing traditional characters, and simply pulling two simplified ones from what was, to them, something incorrect.

[renzhe]

I guess the easiest translation of "qi" is "cultivated internal energy".

You can always refer to qigong, which many people have heard of.

[iltokyo]

I wonder where has iltokyo got all this information. Can you tell how you've come to understand 氣 this way?

i am a chinese.chinese is my native language.

this character like 氣 when you looking it.but when you underdtand it,you need coalescent chinese culture.in china,rare man will expressing their meaning is "气" or "氣",

氣 include "气" and "米",but when you see it carefully,the second character is not "米",is two swords and "+".

i dont know what mean "+",but i think the mean is Latin Cross .

[Hofmann]

It is written correctly. It's OK if the ink runs into each other. Also, one popular 行書 stroke order for 米 in 氣 is 丶丿丨一丿丶.

http://i47.tinypic.com/15h0ln7.png

i am a chinese.chinese is my native language.

this character like 氣 when you looking it.but when you underdtand it,you need coalescent chinese culture.in china,rare man will expressing their meaning is "气" or "氣",

氣 include "气" and "米",but when you see it carefully,the second character is not "米",is two swords and "+".

i dont know what mean "+",but i think the mean is Latin Cross.

I do not understand you very well. I suggest that you write in Chinese.