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Looks like gang1 sheng4 bing1 in traditional characters.  Could be a name.  If not then I have no idea as it doesn't appear in my dictionary as anything other than the individual characters.

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剛勝兵

 

op looking for a translation. It feels very 'english' if you ask me: its either meant to say 'recently victorious army/soldier' or 'strong, victorious army/soldier' 

勝兵 is a coined word used in 孫子兵法, and 剛 appears to be tacked on for the meaning '剛性‘ or perhaps some kind of ’金剛’ connotation ('hard metal', 'buddhist warrior deity' etc.) That being said, 剛 is used in oral to stand for 'recently occurred'. 

 

 

context is key here

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It might save a lot of speculation if the OP could tell us what s/he wanted the tattoo to say before it was "translated".

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Strenghth would be 力量. This is... somewhat in the right direction. There are no obvious mistakes in the writing, but the calligraphy is not too great. There are worse tattoos, but this is not a good one.

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