Need help on identifying what this tattoo means ^^
 

Gus G - the guitarist of Firewind has been my idol since i was around 14, and he has this tattoo on his arm (see below), im not sure what language its actually in, or what it means, i was hoping that someone would be able to tell me. I was thinking of getting the tattoo in homeage, providing it wasnt something silly.
thanks for all your help :)



view the tattoo on his left arm

It says "Fire Wind".

Haha, figures xD
What characters are those? Or are they letters?
Also is this Japanese?

火風

To my understanding it could be either language.. but from a Japanese learners point of view, 火風 is Japanese for fire wind.

火 Fire (pronounced hi)
風 Wind (kaze)

Why would "fire wind" make sense?

It's the name of the guitarist's band.

"Either language" you mean Chinese or Japanese?

How come his "wind" symbol looks a little different??
thanks

Also, would anybody have a "caligraphic" version of these characters?
That look really suave and fancy? :P
thanks

*m'off to youtube*

oooo! I like! :D

Yes. But I don't speak Chinese so I don't know.. They may have other meanings in Chinese.

I think its cuz its either badly done or just too far away. Could be me having the wrong kanji too though cuz I'm only a begginner Japanese learner, but 風
is the only way I know how to say "wind".

Do it yourself. They're pretty simple characters and stroke order doesn't seem to matter in caligraphy cuz to me they never look the way they do when printed or written in pen.. lol

hehe maybe you see why i like them xD
and i got some pretty cool looking ones off the net, stuck them on top of eachother, but i dunno what i should do about making it look more jazzy for my own tattoo hehe

As far as my Japanese skills go I'd say the reading is "hi-fuu". You use the on-reading for 風.

Oops! An amature mistake!

No worries. I'm an amateur too. :) I could also be wrong...

lol You're the one who should worry, not SHADOW.

Why read 火 Kun and read 風 On? Wrong combo.

So you got the right answer then? I tried "ka-fuu" but if you hit the spacebar to convert into Kanji it came up with some bullshit. When I type "hi-fuu" and spacebar, 日風 comes up first but the following suggestion is 火風. If you have a better answer, let me know and I start to worry.

Did ya think I was a Yankee killin' time on JF or something? :confused: I'm a seasoned native speaker of Japanese.

on + on = good
kun + kun = good

kun + on = no good (except for the few kanji words that don't exist in Chinese but were later on created by the Japanese)
on + kun = no good (same as above)

There is a word 火風（かふう） but it's rarely used. It's not in the active vocabulary of the vast majority of Japanese. I don't think that guitarist knew the word and chose it for his tattoo. I think he just went for the literal translation of his band's name "Firewind" and someone gave him the two kanji.

Show 「火風」 to some Japanese and ask how to read it. Most of them will say 「ひかぜ？ What is it?」 or 「かふう？ What does that mean?」. If someone read it ひふう like you did, he should go back to school. We are strictly trained not to mix on's and kun's since 1st grade.　

Please excuse my yankeeness. I will go back to primary school and try to become a seasoned native speaker.

Don't get frustrated. You'll never be a native speaker, so don't make that the goal. I think the reason it didn't show up together in your dictionary is because those two kanji together don't make an actual word.

Nagoyankee's being helpful, I hope you see that.

Of course he's helpful cause he solved our problem. But some things can be expressed a bit nicer. Whatever... we know the Kanji now so we can go on and search for calligraphy.