It's for a tattoo so...
2006-07-16 20:23:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body
It depends
Strength - "tsuyosa" - 強さ
Strength (power) - "chikara" - 力
Strength (real ~) - "jitsuryoku" - 実力
But I think everyone has a point - if you don't know what it looks like, why do you want it.
Something else to bear in mind - culturally, Japanese characters can mean many things, just because you read it one way doesn't mean a Japanese person will see the same.
I live in Japan - and I see "English" tatoos. Believe me it's NOT cool.
It's the same with clothes - the other day I saw a Junior High School student wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a cute chicken. Above the chicken it said
"I (heart) cock to waking up in the morning." - I think she thought it said I love chickens!
2006-07-16 20:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by chocolette 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two words for this in Japanese:
Strength (vigor): tsuyosa
Bodily strength: tairyoku
What you probably want is the word for "strong" - again, there's some choices:
tsuyoi (posessive form of the word above)
joobu na (a phrase meaning ' hard to break')
kenkoo na (healthy)
daijoobu na (reliable)
These words don't directly translate. You would be better off to get a tattoo of something you understand. Yahoo would not properly display the characters in my answer, so I can't put them, sorry. There's three ways to write all these words too... there is a kanji (chinese character) for each of these words, and there are the hirigana and katakana forms as well.
2006-07-16 20:38:08 · answer #2 · answered by polly_peptide 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't even know how to spell "koi" fish. You should find out what the Japanese symbol is for "moron".
2016-03-26 21:19:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you think it's silly to want a tattoo of something when you don't even know what it looks like?
2006-07-16 20:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by julielove327 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to your local tattoo shop....I have that tattoo...a very good Japanese friend of mine drew it up for me...then I found the same thing in the tattoo shop I used.
2006-07-23 12:52:12 · answer #5 · answered by lucy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you don't know what it looks like, maybe you should try coming up with an original representation of strenth for your tattoo.
2006-07-16 20:27:27 · answer #6 · answered by smartsassysabrina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
[名詞] means strong point; forte; strength;
i hope your browser can display these characters.
2006-07-16 20:34:36 · answer #7 · answered by never.fade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will only end up messing it up if you don't know what it looks like ^___^..
but it's ok.. if it turns out bad.. you won't know ^__________^
2006-07-16 20:35:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
even i dont no
2006-07-16 20:35:13 · answer #9 · answered by srinu710 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
長所 *smile -- dnt do that
2006-07-21 21:46:07 · answer #10 · answered by Joriental 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋