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08-03-2009, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by korriken View Post
I've already learned to not trust online kanji searches, but this one keeps coming up with "toilet". That can't be right, or at least, i hope not...
It is indeed what it means. The second character means "place" or "location," and the first has to do with bodily functions. I guess it literally means "convenience," but the word for pee is 小便 and the word for poop is 大便. I suppose these literally read as "small convenience" and "large convenience."

At first I forgot this, and read the tattoo as "convenient location" (my first instinct when seeing the kanji is always 郵便局 (post office)). But then I remembered the other meaning.
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