can someone translate what the lettering is on this girls arm...pleas

[jgonzalesm6]

can someone translate what the lettering is on this girls arm

[SceptileMaster]

I don't know much kanji at all and have yet to study more than the odd one but I recognize the last two characters. I have a feeling it may be chinese because the second character means female and the bottom character means person. This means together they would be read as woman but in japanese woman would be written as 女の人. As said though I'm not really advanced enough to be of any real help but I'm going to post this and see if my guess is anything close to the real answer.

[Nyororin]

Chinese or Japanese, I`m going to guess that it means the same thing in this case. Although I am also in favor of it being either Chinese, or just picked out of a list of kanji in a tattoo parlor.

狼女人 - Wolf Woman

[kirakira]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

Chinese or Japanese, I`m going to guess that it means the same thing in this case. Although I am also in favor of it being either Chinese, or just picked out of a list of kanji in a tattoo parlor.

狼女人 - Wolf Woman

It's definitely Chinese. It says 壞女人 which means bad/naughty woman.

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by kirakira

It's definitely Chinese. It says 壞女人 which means bad/naughty woman.

I find it a bit funny that a search of tattoo sites turns up 狼女人 as "Wolf Woman" "Woman with the power of the wolf" and "werewoman".

Thanks for clearing up the Chinese meaning. I wouldn`t have guessed it to mean that.

[jacobf]

Your search is probably right, the first character that you two are using is different.

kirakira is using 壞 while you are using 狼

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by jacobf

Your search is probably right, the first character that you two are using is different.

kirakira is using 壞 while you are using 狼

For some reason I didn`t notice that.
壞 isn`t used in Japanese - as far as I know - but it sure looks like 狼 in a small poor quality pic.
Serves me right for jumping to conclusions from knowing too many people with "wolf woman" tattooed on them.

[kirakira]

Originally Posted by Nyororin

For some reason I didn`t notice that.
壞 isn`t used in Japanese - as far as I know - but it sure looks like 狼 in a small poor quality pic.
Serves me right for jumping to conclusions from knowing too many people with "wolf woman" tattooed on them.

それは壊の旧字体です。戦前の本なら旧字体を使うでし ょう。