Tattoo of chinese symbol unbreakable

POSTED BY: catstevens21
UPDATED: Monday, September 19, 2005 15:53
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CATSTEVENS21

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:54 AM

I broke my back when i was younger and would like to get a tattoo of the chinese symbol for unbreakable...or if you could pass me along to a website of characters that i could search.

thanks so much

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:05 AM

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/character/bls_characters
.htm

Is a site I've been to quite often.

He doesn't have Chinese for unbreakable, but if you contact him, he can post it on the site for you.

Hope that helps!

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LITHI

Friday, September 16, 2005 2:19 AM

I can't think of a single character that would mean unbreakable. You'd end up with a compound word of 2 or 3 characters.

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CATSTEVENS21

Monday, September 19, 2005 2:16 PM

Thanks for your reply.

Anything that would look really good together in order to create unbreakable??

I want my tattoo to symbolize this is doesnt have to be in chinese I guess but something that looks good and brings unbreakable to my tat.

thanks again

Cat

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Monday, September 19, 2005 2:23 PM

I've been using this website to play a translation quote game on this site - http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

I typed in "unbreakable" and translated to Chinese trad. This is what it came up with.

不會破損

When you translate it back to English it comes up as "cannot damage", so it seems to have kept the meaning. I know it may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I hope it helps. At least it seems to have translated better than most Firefly quotes!

I've got a celtic knot tattooed on my lower back. I got it three years ago and I still love it. Hope you find what you're looking for!

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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Monday, September 19, 2005 2:26 PM

Oh, here's the Chinese simp translation from the same site.

不会破损

Nope, I have no idea what the difference is! I'm assuming one is simple and the other traditional. It still translates back as "cannot damage".

"I'm a bloodsucking fiend! Look at my outfit!"

LITHI

Monday, September 19, 2005 3:36 PM

unfortunately I can't think of anything that would sound elegant at this point. becareful using translation site because you don't want your tatoo to sound like a joke.

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

PAPATWIN

Monday, September 19, 2005 3:53 PM

Here is what I came up with:

斷裂不了

or, go here to see each individual character's English translation:

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=chardict&cdqchi=%E6%96%
B7%E8%A3%82%E4%B8%8D%E4%BA%86&Go=Go&cdqchie=UTF-8&cdcanoce=0

The Babelfish translation is:

Could Not Break

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EDIT: I just realized that the second character could be skipped for your purpose.