What does this tattoo mean??

[TK]

So just wondering what in the world this tattoo actually says when I asked her she just goes into a story about what it means to her. Can anyone help me out??

[Shelley]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

 

The first character is 貴 guì meaning expensive, valuable, precious.

 

The second character is 任rèn  meaning official post, office as in a job, it is also a measure word for girlfriends. 

 

I can't find anything that they mean when used together so what you have is "expensive official post" pretty much meaningless together. I may be wrong and there is some other meaning to it I have not come across, someone else might know. As it is a measure word for girlfriends it could be that the intention was something along the line of "precious girlfriend" but that is not what it actually says.

 

I am intrigued as to what she told you it means to her, is there a short version of her story?

 

Hope this helps.

[TK]

short story is basically something like it is her duty or responsibility to know her own worth 

[陳德聰]

Well it certainly doesn’t mean that. The closest I can get to a poetic reading of it is “precious responsibility,” which is not a particularly salient reading of the two characters. It reads more like vague nonsense.

 

It’s great that it has a deeper meaning to her, and seems like that’s what she cares about. It is kind of like a secret code to everybody else, like if I tattooed the two words “noble any” on my body in English and then told people what it means to me is that anything I choose to do is noble.