What does this tatto say?

[Pettersv93]

A friend of me took this tatto in turkey, but he found out that it doesn't mean what he tought. Do somebody know what it really means? ^_^

[zening]

They are ancient Chinese or wrong Chinese? I can't recognize them.

[Daan]

I'm afraid those characters are badly written to the point that they're unrecognisable. What did he think it meant?

[jbradfor]

Maybe it's my ignorance, but it pretty clearly looks like 首志 me.

[Glenn]

I was thinking 着 and either 流 without the 水 or 充 (but it has that extra stroke in there...). Either way, I can't make any sense out of it (for whatever that's worth).

[Shi Tong]

I can see what you mean jbrad about 首志.. because I've seen those more classic scripts of the heart radical below the top part look truncated and squashed in that kind of way, but then the top part of that word doesn't look much like it should to me, more like the top right hand part of 流.

In fact, I thought that the second word was 流, missing the water part on the left hand side to start with.. for whatever that's worth.

[xiaocai]

The first character looks like 首 to me. Can't tell what the second one is.

[skylee]

I agree with xiaocai.

[Pettersv93]

I don't understand chinese letters at all. When you are typing chinese letters i get little squares. Do any one know what it means? Or doesn't it say anything at all?

[jbradfor]

To see the characters, you'll need to add Chinese language support to your computer. Just google "Chinese language support".

Regarding the meaning, it's probably meaningless in terms of "true Chinese". However, the first character (or at least what the majority thinks is the first character :rolleyes: ), is often used in bad translations to mean "primary" or "most important". If you go with my translation of the second character (志), it means "will" (as in the will to do something), so put those together and you get something like "the will is the most important aspect". If you go with the other suggested translation of the second character (流), it means "fluent" or "flowing". Keep in mind that this is my guess as to what it is trying to say, even assuming I got the characters correct it doesn't really read correctly in Chinese.

[Gleaves]

Could be the dreaded gibberish Asian font, and was intended to represent the letters P and S.

[renzhe]

Yes, it could be the gibberish font. The second character is a strong indication, as it doesn't really exist, other than in that font.

But why would anyone tattoo "PS" on themselves? Initials?

[Chinese girl english major]

er..acctually this word means nothing.but even though they are not standard(i mean each word do not wrote in a correct way,and the second character even added two more strokes.)they can still be identified,they looks like 首充