Customer tattoo

[martinsouth]

Hello

 

Just wondering if anyone could give some insight into a customers tattoo request we did recently.

 

I'm not sure if its meant to read as six single words or a continuous sentance of text.

 

Thanks for any help anyone can offer

 

[li3wei1]

The first four characters are 欲义命永勇 (desire, justice, fate, forever, brave) (note that the second one in your illustration is the traditional version, but the first one is a simplified character, it's not good to mix the two). For the last character, the best I can come up with is 萝 (turnip) with an extra component added by mistake, unless it's some rare character I haven't seen before, which is entirely possible. None of them form words or phrases and the order or arrangement probably doesn't matter at all.

[skylee]

 For the last character, the best I can come up with is 萝 (turnip) with an extra component added by mistake, unless it's some rare character I haven't seen before, which is entirely possible.

 

The last character is 夢, meaning dream.

 

PS - Which one is a simplified character?  欲?  It is also in the traditional script, in which 欲 and 慾 have different meanings.

 

PPS - I agree that together they don't make much sense.

[li3wei1]

How embarrassing.

Memo to self: don't pretend to be a Chinese expert before you've had your coffee.

Though I do think that "desire, justice, fate, forever, brave, turnip" would be an awesome tattoo.

[martinsouth]

Hello

 

Thanks for the replies, very interesting. We get stuff like this all the time, thought it would be interesting to see for a change if the customer was right / aware what it actually said

 

Hopefully for her sake it is read as 'dream' and not 'turnip' by most people