Please help me translate my tattoo

[Linz]

So I was 17 grieving my dad and thought the best thing to do was get a tattoo to memorialise him.... Young and stupid I trusted the tattooist. 9 years on and I literally have no idea what it says. Please could someone translate it for me. I have little faith it has anything to do with my dad!

Luckily I have a sense of humour and I'm prepared for it to be something ridiculous or the tattoist favourite dish off the menu!

Thanks in advance Linz

[Demonic_Duck]

As far as I can tell, they're not proper characters. Closest I can make them into is four characters arranged with the top two vertically and the bottom two horizontally: 西业彳命. Though that's not quite right either.

The other possibility I can think of is that they're Japanese-only characters or variants.

[Publius]

Looks like 亞倫 except an extra stroke on the left of the second character and some other minor irregularities.

If it is 亞倫 then it's a tranliteration of a Western name like Allan. Perhaps your dad's name?

[skylee]

I agree with #3.

[Demonic_Duck]

Yeah, agree with Publius. Ignore my earlier post, clearly I can't read traditional characters. 

 

Main thing I'm confused about is why 倫 uses 彳 instead of 亻. Is that a recognized variant?

[889]

Yes, it's a recognized variant.

http://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/yitia/fra/fra00198.htm

[Linz]

Actually yes my dad was called Alan,

Thanks so much everyone, I thought he had just doodled on me