You know how this things are: My friend goes to the tattoo store and the owner tells her this tattoo has some powerful mystical meaning.

Well maybe it does. But maybe not. Maybe it is not even chinese. Maybe I can get some LOLs

So can anyone plz translate it. PLz?

Chronopolis

Canada1484 Posts

July 29 2010 04:26 GMT

It says "Hell it's about time"

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jokes I can't read it, but its chinese for sure

Glider

United States1353 Posts

July 29 2010 04:26 GMT

Love magic resolve? lol

synapse

China13814 Posts

July 29 2010 04:29 GMT

On July 29 2010 13:26 Glider wrote:
Love magic resolve? lol

Yeah that's what I get from the tattoo.
Love magic resolve, two words each going from top to bottom.

Masamune

Canada3401 Posts

July 29 2010 04:30 GMT

^ if that's what it really means, she can take solace in knowing that most people won't know what it means.

Kingsp4de20

United States716 Posts

July 29 2010 04:34 GMT

Hey, could always be worse I guess. Thats why I think getting those kind of tattoos is sketchy unless you speak the language they could be writing I love dick on yopur arm or something.

00Zarathustra

Bolivia419 Posts

July 29 2010 04:40 GMT

On July 29 2010 13:26 Chronopolis wrote:
It says "Hell it's about time"

I was going to propose her after reading this... Then I read the real translation.

Love magic resolve? Maybe those words together have some "chinese only" meaning? Because it doesn't make any sense to me.

Edit: ^ Maybe I will go with her next time and pay the tattoo guy to write "I love cock" in her back. :D

Redmark

Canada2129 Posts

July 29 2010 04:46 GMT

I get shirts from my grandparents (Chinese) saying "AWGFOPQEGNAVOAE" (literally).
This might be the Western equivalent of Chinese fraud lol.

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

July 29 2010 04:50 GMT

Even google translate says that 愛情魔法決心 means Love Magic determination

bearbuddy

3442 Posts

July 29 2010 04:51 GMT

#10

It's the chant to summon the Chinese captain planet. Seems pretty deep to me.

ieatkids5

United States4628 Posts

July 29 2010 04:52 GMT

#11

On July 29 2010 13:40 00Zarathustra wrote:

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I was going to propose her after reading this... Then I read the real translation.

Love magic resolve? Maybe those words together have some "chinese only" meaning? Because it doesn't make any sense to me.

It probably doesn't mean anything; the tattoo artist was just sticking a bunch of characters together so that it looks cool to non-chinese/japanese.

Although in Chinese, people do often string a bunch of characters together and it gains a meaning larger than the sum of its parts. I doubt this tattoo is like that though. Although you could bs it and tell people "first two characters mean love, next 2 mean magic, last 2 mean determination. together it means....." ok I couldn't come up with anything because it really does not make sense.

news

892 Posts

July 29 2010 04:55 GMT

#12

I've met this one "russian chinese" (that's what locals call them, in reality they are from either Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan), she had some tats on her body. I asked her what the big word on her leg meant and she said she doesn't remember, "it is either chinese or japanese". Was weird to hear from an asian, at least that much she could've known.

Cow

Canada1104 Posts

July 29 2010 04:59 GMT

#13

I can't believe people still allow people to give them tattoos with Asian characters on them, without knowing exactly what they mean...
Also, since I don't think anyone has mentioned it yet, the image on the left is the proper orientation.

ieatkids5

United States4628 Posts

July 29 2010 05:03 GMT

#14

On July 29 2010 13:55 News wrote:
I've met this one "russian chinese" (that's what locals call them, in reality they are from either Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan), she had some tats on her body. I asked her what the big word on her leg meant and she said she doesn't remember, "it is either chinese or japanese". Was weird to hear from an asian, at least that much she could've known.

Well, it probably could have been either chinese or japanese. japanese uses a lot of chinese characters.

00Zarathustra

Bolivia419 Posts

July 29 2010 05:04 GMT

#15

Well from this picture I don't think that the tattoo guy knows what it means neither xD

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wishbones

Canada2600 Posts

July 29 2010 05:15 GMT

#16

haha hes just excited, and wrote improperly? dont get guys who are shy around women to do tattoo's sheesh. I would fuck it up so bad lmfao. btw is that a girl giving the tattoo?

oddo123

Iceland134 Posts

July 29 2010 05:20 GMT

#17

I suppose it meant to say that love is magical but you know probably got the characters from Google/Yahoo Babelfish

00Zarathustra

Bolivia419 Posts

July 29 2010 05:22 GMT

#18

No he is not. Or a least he is not yet.

wishbones

Canada2600 Posts

July 29 2010 05:25 GMT

#19

ah sorry its probably just the different look and texture of skin from your culture on that specific guy along with the very small portion of his face being visible that made me think that.

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

July 29 2010 05:29 GMT

#20

On July 29 2010 14:20 oddo123 wrote:
I suppose it meant to say that love is magical but you know probably got the characters from Google/Yahoo Babelfish

Love is magical? Don't see how determination/resolve comes into the factor.

爱情 = Love
魔法 = Magic
决心 = Determination/Resolve

It's pretty clearcut what they mean. Don't see how you spin it in any other way.

SilverSkyLark

Philippines8437 Posts

July 29 2010 05:59 GMT

#21

Good thing it's not "I love cock."

Kyuukyuu

Canada6263 Posts

July 29 2010 06:00 GMT

#22

Yeah it's just random phrases strung together.

There is no "chinese-only" meaning that you can't get from an online translator.

otsukaresama

Japan23 Posts

July 29 2010 08:01 GMT

#23

The only meaningful thing about this tattoo is that it's written in traditional Chinese.

OhThatDang

United States4685 Posts

July 29 2010 08:09 GMT

#24

maybe its the chinese equivalent to

live love laugh

The Storyteller

Singapore2486 Posts

July 29 2010 08:12 GMT

#25

I think it's a "typo". If the last character 心 was left out, I think the phrase would mean something like "magical love technique". 决 would have the same implication as 决 in 秘诀 and 口诀. Someone with better Chinese than me can confirm/deny this.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21243 Posts

July 29 2010 09:06 GMT

#26

So like everyone who speaks Chinese has said it's just three words strung together, and then everybody else keeps trying to say it means something else/speculating on stuff.

Really, guys?

OhThatDang

United States4685 Posts

July 29 2010 10:05 GMT

#27

On July 29 2010 18:06 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
So like everyone who speaks Chinese has said it's just three words strung together, and then everybody else keeps trying to say it means something else/speculating on stuff.

Really, guys?

some people wanna make the op's friends detrimental situation better