Need help to translate a chinese tatto...(Please)

[Arrepiado]

Can you please help me...i realy need to find out what this tatoo means, thank you!!!

[anonymoose]

I could be wrong, but I assume it's meant to say 将来过去, which means future past, but it looks like the second character, 来, is missing a stroke.

[roddy]

Yeah, that's what it looks like to me. Out of interest, what is it meant to mean?

Oh, and who wants to email this to hanzismatter?

Roddy

[maniac]

it could mean two separate time periods future and past ,but without any contexts combining the two words does not really make any sense to me .

[confucius]

The snake is an essential animal of the Chinese zodiac symbolically used in ancient China to show the attractiveness of a woman's figure. I believe the tattoo therefore is a Tang dynasty subliminal message in two parts:

The first two characters indicate the shape of this person's hips in the future as can be seen by the slim curvature of the snake's upper body, the second two characters represent the wavy way this person's hips appeared in the past; a subtle "before" and "after", so to speak.

[gougou]

Sounds good, Confucius, just would like to add that according to the disfigured character used for 来, there should be some heavy cosmetic surgery involved on the way, don't you think?

[roddy]

Actually, I'm not sure. Perhaps the horizontal line on that second character is misplaced and it should read 将米过去 - I'm not sure why anyone would want to have 'pass the rice' tattooed on them in Chinese, but I'm not sure why anyone would want to have anything in Chinese tattooed on them . . .

Roddy

[in_lab]

I think that's the first time I've seen simplified characters in a tattoo (not counting Japanese characters). Is that common?

[kudra]

Looks like there is some more hanzi at the upper right in shadow.

[Quest]

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