Meaning

[MsP]

http://www.chinese-word.com/data/1748.html

 

Please confirm if the first symbol really means Love is Chinese. When I google a different symbol appears.

[Jim]

Yes, it does: https://www.zdic.net/hans/戀

It's not the most commonly used term so wouldn't be the first hit on a search.

[TheBigZaboon]

It's one of a couple of characters used referring to various aspects, feelings, and actions involving "love." Hopefully, you're not contemplating getting a tattoo including characters you can't actually read. Inappropriate characters and character combinations might spoil the mood when you actually strip down to the body part displaying the offending characters and your Chinese partner erupts in guffaws, or loses his or her train of thought (so to speak) at a critical point in time.

 

If you can't be dissuaded from getting it in a tatoo, be sure that you really, really trust the judgement and honesty of the native Chinese speaker who is helping you choose the appropriate meaning and helping to ensure the accuracy and quality of the "font" being used to ink your new  "tat." 

 

People here will give you helpful and appropriate advice based on their own experience and approval of tattoos in general. However, for accuracy, the input of a native Chinese speaker is essential. But even native Chinese differ greatly in their own culture and cultural settings about tatoos. And they may not feel it is appropriate for them to dissuade you, a foreigner, from your endeavors. So be careful.

 

If tatoos are far and away from your motivations for your question, just ignore my ranting and ravings. It's a cold but sunny early February afternoon on the Kanto Plain, and I finished my CupNoodle lunch early... Nuthin' better to do...

 

TBZ

[vellocet]

If you're getting this tattooed, be aware that font has all the charm of a grade school student's workbook.  

[Lu]

愛 is the more common word for 'love'. Please don't get 戀 as a tattoo, it's not a character that does well on its own.

If you really, really want to get 愛 as a tattoo, make sure you get a tattooist who knows what they're doing with characters. There are a lot of strokes in 愛, and if they are not placed well, the result looks ugly and bad.

[Mig]

Is 戀 related to 慈 or is different used depending on the context or combination of words?

 

[Lu]

It's a different word. It looks a bit similar, if you don't know Chinese, but it's a completely different word.