Can you translate my tattoo?

Yerma says it means vegetable. Is that true?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/burninganubis/l_38808...

Thurber,

Yes, it's a non-standard kanji for "vegetable".
Please be sure to submit it to the Hanzi Smatter site.
http://www.hanzismatter.com/

ya dave is right. it is a uncommon kanji for vegetable, or side dish, not exactly the same, but it is close. here is the kanji of what i think you have 菜

i dont know if you can make it out, i dont know what else it could be.

what did you think it meant? maybe your artist was close. so if you tell me i probably will know the kanji for it. and he can just touch it up if its close

It's a beautiful version of the letter in which the Japanese would typically read "sai" representing the meaning "leaf" especially "vegetable leaf". But this letter alone doesn't mean anything as a word in the Japanese language.

Perhaps the Chinese might have a different interpretation. Chinese and Japanese are totally different languages, you know.

It means "dish" also in Japanese or Chinese.

It means "dish" also in Japanese or Chinese.
Ah right, I know that "dish" is American slang for an attractive girl (She's a dish!) and it looks like somebody opened a dictionary and assumed languages can be translated one on one. ^_^;;

Being an American, I have never heard the term ''dish'' used to represent a girl. I would doubt anyone that wasnt in WWII would know what that was referring to, granted they could even read it.

Luckily you can just lie and tell people it means something cooler then it really does, they will never know.

In any case, it's food related, usually found in compounds meaning some kind of vegetable. Were you told it meant something else, Thurber?

I don't even know where to start! I would appreciate ANY help I can get. Thank you so much!

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Don,
The top looks like 愛 "love," but then below I definitely see a 友 "friend" character. Maybe an attempted "love" with a few strokes missing?

Someone who has no idea what the character should like like has done this one- either very carelessly copied from an actual character or a tattoo "template" that has been copied many times and become kind of garbled.

I agree with Uco that it is a badly written 愛, the character meaning "love".

I think Sira meant to write "AK" instead of "Uco."

Don, could it be a Chinese or any other way of writing a symbol? I don't think this figure exists in Japanese. But it doesn't really seem like a bad handwriting. It's not crooked or anything.

Sorry Uco and AK, I think I was looking at one of Uco's posts somewhere just before...

While the character for "love" is written as 愛 in Japanese, the simplified character in Mainland China is now 爱. So, it is a readable and legitimate character in Chinese, but not in Japanese.