Need help with Chinese Character

[trainerpeg]

Hi, can anyone please give me the Chinese symbol for bodybuiler? Also, female bodybuilder. I want to get this tattoo and make sure it is correct

Thank you very much for your help.

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[navaburo]

Be sure to think it through before you get a Chinese character tattoo. The sticky post in this subforum should be read also.

That said, the Chinese for 'bodybuilding' is 健美, meaning literally "strong and beautiful". The first and second characters have masculine and feminine connotations, respectively.

[trainerpeg]

Thank you for your reply. However, the symbol did not show up. Would you mind re sending. It is just showing 2 blocks.

Thanks!!!

[Shelley]

It is probably not what was sent but the fact that you need to enable Asian languages on your machine.

Why do you want a Chinese tattoo? What's the point if no one around you can read it.

Chinese characters don't impart any special or magical meanings.

Why not just get it done in your own language in nice font and colour and then people will be able to read it.

You must very careful because you have no idea how capable the tattoo artist is and he may not realize the importance of getting it right.

Before you ink - think and think again and again.

Please read the pinned post in this forum.

[flow]

dude

if you're on a windows machine that you never cared even to install ms office language packs on or get yourself a chinese font, are you sure you want to have that tattoo? dude?

for what it's worth: http://hanzismatter.blogspot.de

ps. not against tattoos per se, or chinese tattoos, just cautioning to decorate your body for a lifetime with something you don't fully understand / control... and see to it you get an artist that won't do bad calligraphy, reverse characters, place them upside down, whatever... dude

[YuehanHao]

In case it is helpful, below is an image of the two characters suggested by navaburo as the Chinese for 'bodybuilding':

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Thank you very much!