Q about japanese tattoo
 

Hello all i'm new here :)

I hope this is the right place to post such a thing.
last week I saw a kanji tattoo on someone and I want to know what does it means
if you guys could help my figure it out I will be in your debt ^^

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thanks in advance :)

tbh nope :)

I got something else ( this is the day I finished it )


so ...you got any idea what the tattoo means?? ^_^

It says 連

Here are some dictionary definitions for you:

連 れん
(n,abbr) (taxonomical) tribe; quinella (quiniela); party; company; group; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper)

thanks you so much :D

I think in this case (as a stand alone) it may refer to Muraji title.

Muraji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Either way, it is an odd tattoo.

lol ya but still better than 豚カツ　:D 　

p.s. o sweet jebasus it's a woman! lol i have just noticed her bra sticking out.

Not really - the definition given up there for it is a bit off though. I have to raise my eyebrows at a dictionary that gives a list that doesn`t even include the most common meaning.

It`s 運, as in luck. My guess is they got it to mean luck or lucky. Possibly destiny - as I`ve heard of people getting tattoos and shortening 運命 to just 運.

It`s one of the common ones in those "kanji for tattoo" lists.

you mistake 運 for 連 and so did the tatooist.

Hahaha...
That one did get me.
I automatically read it as 運 because that`s the typical one for a tattoo.

99.999% chance that is what was intended.

....
Even more embarrassing as I have a friend with 連 in their name...

well it happens, but the "roof" radical can be added. It may throw the whole balance out of wack, but that tatoo here is a 活字 so its a 書道　blasphemy anyway.

Many people do not realize that ton of characters are being written differently by hand than their printed version appearance. I won't even mention artistic values.

Indeed...

運

and

連

are very different...but at least it is kind of fixable.

ya but it will ruin the balance

in case anyone else, god forbid, is thinking of drilling 活字 in their skin, i am pasting below my calligraphy in 楷書 znaku 運.