"Peace, Happiness, Love, Chaos"
http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A51216/high/bmepb183810.jpg
This tattoo was submitted to BMEzine's tattoo gallery by Scott of S & J Tattoos in Lancaster, CA.
The photo's caption said the four characters are "Japanese text for Peace, Happiness, Love, and Chaos".
I have never seen any "happiness" character is written as the second character shown here in my life. I am curious about where did Scott got the design from.
Plus the last character 屯 does not really mean "chaos". There was a detailed discussion about it.
posted by tian at
1:15 AM
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I think that might be "道", or "dao". I've never seen dao used to mean happiness, though.
Wow, I just heard you on KCRW via NPR... I can now pronounce the website name too!
personally it looks like 酒 to me.
Common mistake, 平taken by itself in Japanese means flat. People often seem to take it from 平和 which means peaceful with the 和 meaning peace (or Japan). I couldn't say what the Chinese readings are.
Last seen by me in an airport on a girls shoulder, no she wasn't 平
I think it could be a massacred 草写 version of 福, going by the sort of spiral form for the 田 particle. But really, who could tell.
I think it's probably the caoshu (curved) style of 福. I have tried some caoshu fonts to compare with the tattoo (http://www.pengguo.com/yingxiang/out/fu_caoshu.png) , but it seems that it's just bad caoshu writing.
I also tried with 道 and 酒:
http://www.pengguo.com/yingxiang/out/dao_caoshu.png
http://www.pengguo.com/yingxiang/out/jiu_caoshu.png
All Japanese words I find for happiness are two kanji at least.
Speaking of peace, is there a difference in meaning or usage between ping2an1 or he2ping2?
In Chinese, 平安 is "peaceful, safe", and 和平 is "peace".
i think its supposed to be 縁
anonymous, there are several words with one kanji that express happiness, but even more one kanji that represent happiness, even on it's own. 幸い、幸せ（"saiwai" or "shiawase"), 嬉しい (ureshii). 福 (fuku) represents happiness as well, and in the expression 喜怒哀楽 meaning "emotions" 喜 represent happiness.
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