Japan Tattoo NEED HELP
 

Hello!

I gotta know if this is my right choose of signs (kanji) :S


Dad


Honesty


friendly band (or connection, know what i mean?)


I'm happy about every help i get! they called me stupid in other forums, and im sick of it... thats really my wish to get this on my back as tattoo.

so, sorry for my bad english, and thanks for help :P

Dennis :ywave:

I am Chinese and an advanced Japanese learner. All your meanings are correct.

But I need to tell you that the third word 絆 is rarely used in Chinese. So if you want your tattoos to be understood by Japanese as well as Chinese, I personally recommend 友情(friendship) as an alternative.

alright thanks!
or how japans used to say, "arigato" :P

ok i just need 3 signs, but thats not why i choosed "band, connection" instead of friendship. i just want to say with that sign that u'll learn many things of wether good oder bad bonds... and "connection" is the thing u'll learn most of in life. do u know what i mean?

so can i take that?

In the other forums, did they tell you Kanji tattoos are one of the most cliche and contrived type of ink you can receive, only surpassed by tribals and barbwire armbands, but tied with stars and music notes? What jerks.

What are you hoping this tattoo will say? I am not fully understanding your explanation, but what I do understand doesn't seem to be coming through with these characters.

I think he's just getting random characters that he likes the meaning of, like what most people who get them do.

父

English meanings
father;

誠

English meanings
admonish;
fidelity;
prohibit;
sincerity;
truth;
warn;

絆

English meanings
bonds;
fetters;

So it might be read "Father warns about bonding" or "Father prohibits bonding".

In other words, gibberish.

Like I said, I'm sure the kanji he wants are supposed to be stand-alone when read. So when someone asks him about them, he can tell the person what each individual kanji means, instead of a sentence like your example.

Even then it's a -weird- combination. There's no obvious link between the words like with a lot of triptych tattoos. Maybe there's some great profound reason the OP hasn't shared, but ehhhh... taken at face value (which is what tattoos generally are), that's pretty wtf. I mean imagine seeing someone with;

Daddy
Truth
Fetters

doodled on them in English. First thing that would jump to my mind is that the person probably ~really~ hates their dad. Just because it's in another language and most people can't read it, doesn't make it any less bonkers. I mean, if that's what you really want OP, by all means go for it, but you'll have to accept that anyone who knows their kanji is probably going to think (at best) that you got suckered by some rogue tattoo artist.

It's funny how a lot of people these days think tattoos are made so that OTHERS can appreciate them!

People, not everyone is shallow enough to get a tattoo to look cool to others!

I have a friend that has the ugliest tattoo you've ever seen, but he LOOOOOOVES it because it means something to him that only he knows!