Put it simple, You can get whatever you want to express in Chinese symbols. Whereas, Chinese Symbols have about 4000 year history and there are 47,035 Chinese symbols in Chinese Kangxi Dictionary. Japanese Kanji only have hundreds of writing symbols which evolved from written Chinese Symbols, You can not get whatever you want to express by using Japanese Kanji. The Kanji Tattoos you have seen in the tattoo parlor or anywhere else are actually Chinese Symbol Tattoos, when you are planning to get a Kanji Tattoo, Choosing Chinese Symbol Tattoos instead of Japanese Kanji Tattoos, Why?
Tampilkan postingan dengan label Kanji Tattoo Designs. Tampilkan semua postingan
Tampilkan postingan dengan label Kanji Tattoo Designs. Tampilkan semua postingan
Selasa, 03 Agustus 2010
Japanese Symbols Kanji Tattoos
The Kanji Dictionary consists of thousands of Characters / Symbols which represent and mean so many different things. ( well those that understand the Japanese language to be precise ) Japanese Symbols show meanings of words in visually expressive ways. By viewing the Kanji Tattoo characters or set of characters, people can understand the meanings of the Kanji right away. Kanji Tattoo characters can represent objects, ideas, specific meanings and much more in a single character structure form.
( An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea, rather than a group of letters arranged according to the phonemes of a spoken language ). Kanji Tattoos on peoples body are symbols and scripts based based on simple and complex ideographic characters. In Japanese, the term Kanji simply means "Han characters". The origin of Japanese Symbols or Japanese Kanji are the Chinese characters which are used in modern day Japanese logo-graphic writing together with Hiragana and Katakana Symbols which form the architecture and foundation of the Japanese Language System.
( An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea, rather than a group of letters arranged according to the phonemes of a spoken language ). Kanji Tattoos on peoples body are symbols and scripts based based on simple and complex ideographic characters. In Japanese, the term Kanji simply means "Han characters". The origin of Japanese Symbols or Japanese Kanji are the Chinese characters which are used in modern day Japanese logo-graphic writing together with Hiragana and Katakana Symbols which form the architecture and foundation of the Japanese Language System.
Kanji Originally Tattoo
They want to know, "How do you say this in Japanese?" or "How do you say that in Chinese?" But they often get advice from less than reliable sources. Many people would like to get a tattoo of a certain English word or phrase written in kanji symbols. One of the most common problems seen with kanji tattoos is straight translation. Often, kanji tattoos are made up of meaningless combinations of characters or single characters that, on their own, are enigmatic at best.
In some cases the tattoo artist has reversed the stencil, resulting in a character written backwards, in others they've left out one or more of the strokes, or added something that has no business being there. There are a lot of people walking around with tattoos that have mistakes which are glaring to anyone who can read kanji. Kanji tattoo mistakes happen, a lot more often than many of their wearers realize.
Sabtu, 22 Agustus 2009
Kanji Tattoo Designs

Langganan:
Postingan (Atom)
