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need help translating a Tattoo

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:37 am
by mike
Hello,
my g/f has a tattoo on her lower back of this character:

http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/vi ... in,english

She says it means friendship. But when i try to translate the word friendship from english to chineese i come up with two characters:

http://www.wavedancing.net/gallery/prod ... ?itemnum=8

Is her tattoo missing a character or does her single character also mean friendship?

confused :)

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Re: need help translating a Tattoo

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:26 pm
by kendall
yes,i will look it up for you ok.

Re: need help translating a Tattoo

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:27 am
by tinna
Hi mike, Yes, your friend's tattoo means friendship also. In Chinese word, sometimes it implies a same meaning with only one word. For example, friend is 朋友 however, only 友 http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/vi ... e=internal also means the same.

u may check here: http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/ecdict.php