Chinese (we think, but could be Japanese) symbol help.

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Does anyone know if this is a Chinese symbol and if so, what does it mean? My DP has it but has absolutely no idea

My friend has a tattoo in Chinese that she thought said lover
It means special horse 😂

Special horse 😂

Chinese here. It means night, or similar to Japanese, a place to stay the night. Another nicer meaning is constellation - not that bad a tattoo!

Attached the translations. Hope it helps.

Tbf lover is a bit shit anyway. Special horse sounds more spiritual 😂

Imagine permanently inking a word onto your skin when you don't know what it means
So, so stupid.

Thanks for this, OP. The thread has really made me laugh. Special horse.

In Chinese I know it at the first character in the word "宿舍" which is dormitory, like where all my students live in rooms of six!

It’s the first part of the Japanese word for “homework”. Maybe he should have done his homework before getting it permanently drawn on his skin.

宿題　is the word for homework

Arf at ‘special horse’ Where are you going, with your fetlocks blowing, in the wind.

This is hilarious

I can't stop giggling at this thread- thanks OP!

Newton the tattoo artist must have been a Fr Ted fan.

At uni done arse was showing off his chinese writing saying it meant honour and courage etc. A chinese Guy said ‘Erm it actually days ‘a fool and his money are easily parted’ the guy shut up and shuffled off. Someone said ‘wow is that really what it said ?’ the guy shrugged and said. ‘Fucked if I know I’m from Birmingham and can’t read mandarin’ his grandparents were chinese and migrated here before his parents were born.

Hotel, motel, holiday iiiiiiin.

This thread is great

Special horse 😂 Class!

I am too lazy to name change but I really hope someone name changes to SpecialHorse asap

Was your partner well known for being especially “ accommodating” Love special 🐎.

I read Japanese and the other commenters are right - 宿 on its own means “inn” or “hotel”. However, it could also be part of the verb 宿る (yadoru) which means “to live” or “to dwell” so I suppose you could think of it as “home is where the heart is”. Unfortunately, you’d need the “る” part for it to become a verb.

Ah well, it could be worse - my husband saw a foreigner on the Tokyo Metro with “冷蔵庫” tattooed on his arm. It means “fridge” 😂

Oh, can I join in? Does anyone know what this means?

Can anyone tell me what this means?
It’s very very old and faded, and I think i was told it means something to do with enjoyment. But i was 15, drunk and it was very long ago 😂

@Thisismytimetoshine...well in the almost 30 years I’ve had mine it’s affected my life in literally no way whatsoever. So don’t worry about it

At the swimming pool once I saw a bloke with an enormous tattoo on his back, and it was the traditional Chinese character for 'cow'. I've always wondered if he knew what it meant and, if he did, why on earth he had it done in the first place

He obviously had a cowboy tattooist who ran out of room! Laughing at the special horse with its fetlocks streaming in the wind, too! It badly needs a vet.

ScotInExile, I am no expert but that does not look like a character that exists in Chinese/Mandarin. Was the tattooist Chinese or Japanese? They may have copied from somewhere but got the strokes wrong.

OwlbeThere, the character is too distorted to be recognisable. I am not sure it is the right way up.