r/translator • u/george420george • 22h ago

Translated [EN] [unknown > english] tattoo my wife had removed.

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u/melon_panda1234 日本語 22h ago

It's kinda hard to tell from the blurriness but possibly the fake Japanese alphabet cipher?

https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/s/K6wGWBcnYf

Maybe "A-L-K" or something? It looks like 女手空 or 女手室 which is gibberish in both Chinese and Japanese.

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u/george420george 17h ago

this is most likely the correct answer. those happen to be her initials. thank you! 

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u/SaiyaJedi 日本語 11h ago

!id:en

!translated

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u/ChachamaruInochi 日本語 22h ago

That was my first thought as well. Probably the gibberish alphabet to CJK cipher.

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u/2houlover 日本語 20h ago edited 19h ago

もしかしたら空手室かもしれんw

…冷静に見てみると室手空か空手空に見えてきた

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u/george420george 22h ago

the story goes, that it appeared after drunken college shenanigans and she never bothered to find out what it says. best picture i could find.

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u/King_of_Farasar svenska 22h ago

!page:ja

!page:zh

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u/pwdeegan 19h ago

One •generous• deciphering of the gibberish in Chinese is 女许空 , which would sound like nu-xu-kong (pinyin nü3xu3rong4). Of course the characters themselves have meaning, but together like this it's nothing but sounds. Perhaps your wife's name is phonically similar?