my friend wants a tattoo of the japanese symbol for 'faith' and 'patience'?

Question

.....does anyone know what they are?

Answer 1

See about.com:

Answer 2

Good for her. I have the Japanese Kanji for Faith on my shoulder, I also have Heart, Love and Happiness. I would recommend getting them done in a brush stroke style in solid black ink with a Japanese inspired colored or black and grey background. I haven't chosen a background for mine yet. It will either be baboo or lotus flowers or a combination of the two. If they are small then you really don't need a background but mine are over an inch and look kind of strange just floating there on my shoulder blade. Make sure she does research to make sure they are correct and that you have a good, clean tattoo artist AND make sure when the artist puts the stencil on that it is facing the correct way (not reversed). Also dont' get them too close together or it may change the meaning. about an inch apart it good.

Answer 3

Japanese Symbol For Friend

Answer 4

Faith in the religious sense is 信仰
To believe in something is 信じる
My advice is, just use 信. It looks better if it's only one word.

Patience is 忍耐
But from a Japanese standpoint this is not such a cool tatoo to have. Patience in english may sound poetic but in Japanese it's not such a appealing idea. All I can say is Japanese people will laugh if you had 忍耐 tatooed on your chest. At least I know I'd giggle a bit.

How about 志?
It means ambition. The lower part mean heart or soul.
The upper part means something similar to "person of".
For example the word Bushi (aka samurai).武士
武 means fight or arms. So the direct interpretation of these 2 charaters 武士 will mean something like "a person of the fight" or a fighter / warrior.
BTW If you change the 士 to a character that means road 道 it will form 武道 or the art of / The way of fighting.

Answer 5

I'm sure what your friend wants isn't the Japanese symbol, it's most likely Kanji- a form of Japanese writing. No offense, but if your friend is so fatuous that they do not know the difference, then they probably don't deserve to have one. You need to know what your inking on your body, it is forever.

Answer 6

Well, if your friend is old enough, just take a picture of the symbol to a tatto parlor. Any good tattoo artist should be able to do that.

Answer 7

faith・・・　誠実　(sei jitsu)

patience・・・　忍耐 （nin tai)

is that what are you looking for?
or looking for an opinion??

Answer 8

Why not make it an invisible tattoo?

Answer 9

Good for her! Was there anything else?

Answer 10

look on google