Can you tell me what my tattoo means please, Thanks alot.

[Grantm]

 

 

Hi there could anyone please tell me what my tattoo really means, thanks very much for your help.

[renzhe]

It says 儒斯定

http://www.xiaoma.info/hanzi.php?hz=%E5%84%92

http://www.xiaoma.info/hanzi.php?hz=%E6%96%AF

http://www.xiaoma.info/hanzi.php?hz=%E5%AE%9A

It means: "Scholar this fix" so to me, at least, it doesn't mean anything.

It's probably a translitaration of a foreign word or a foreign name that sounds something like "Ru si ding".

[Grantm]

Thanks for your reply, so it doesnt mean justin then ? and its nothing bad ?

[renzhe]

Depending on who tattooed it, it might be a really bad pronunciation of "Justin", like "roos-ding", at least in Mandarin. Perhaps it's closer in some other dialect.

You can't translate names into other languages. You can only approximate their sounds. If you use Chinese words to approximate foreign names, you get things that mean gibberish, but when pronounced outloud, kind of sound a bit like the original name. This looks like a poor attempt at doing exactly that.

It doesn't mean anything bad.

[Grantm]

Ok thanks very much for your fast replies and help.

[Guest realmayo]

Looks like it sounds closer to Justin if you use Cantonese pronunciation of the three characters.

[skylee]

I don't think it sounds like Justin in Cantonese.

 

There is a HK singer/songwriter called Justin and in Chinese he is 側田. That in Cantonese sounds like Justin, though obviously the "s" is dropped.

[Kobo-Daishi]

儒斯定 is pronounced "yu si ding" in Cantonese. I guess it sound more like Justin than Mandarin "ru si ding", but, not much more.

 

I figure it's got that j/y thing going on.

 

Where "Jessica" is "Yessica" and "Jasmine" is "Yasmine" in Spanish or "Jugoslavia" is "Yugoslavia" in English. Or the "Jung" in Carl Jung is pronounced like the English "young".

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yessica

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmine

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugoslavia

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_jung

 

Kind of like that whole "d/t", "k/g", "b/p", "b/v", etc. thing going on.
 

Don't know what it's called. Probably linguists would know.

 

Kobo.