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Old Sep 18, 2008 | 01:22 PM
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Can someone tell me what these symbols are?

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Old Sep 18, 2008 | 04:37 PM
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A: Aquarius
B. Leo
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Old Sep 18, 2008 | 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by redsilvia
A: Aquarius
B. Leo
thanks.

would this be the way to make the Aquarious symbol into up and down from right to left?
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Old Sep 18, 2008 | 06:43 PM
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ok, now anyone that can be helpful?
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by USN HM 350Z
thanks.

would this be the way to make the Aquarius symbol into up and down from right to left?
Hey, USN ... this is "relentless" over on the miata.net board.

1/ You are showing Leo -- not Aquarius -- in your post above. Also, the kanji order is wrong.

2/ In your first posting ... you show symbol A (Aquarius) and symbol B (Leo).


You show this left-to-right.

To reverse this to the traditional reading top-to-down ... the left kanji is your first top kanji. Then the second and third kanji fall into place.



3/ Hope you are enjoying your MX-5. I love the Mazda Roadster ...

4/ I lurk over on this site now once in awhile ... and haven't posted in years. Just happened to click on the Japan site just to see if anybody posted - very coincdental since I rarely come here.

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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 08:28 AM
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Just a suggestion... if you're going to get Asian characters tatted to your body, find someone who specializes in Asian character tats. I see a lot of "kanji" tatted on people and it really looks bad because there's a certain technique and style to write these characters correctly.

If you get it tatted by someone who's never written Chinese/Kanji calligraphy - it's going to look like characters written by a 5 year Asian kid.

For examples:

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The ones you attached were pretty bad too... I would suggest looking around more but I'm picky about this kind of stuff

Good luck.
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 08:32 AM
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can you write them?
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 08:01 PM
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correct lay out now?
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by USN HM 350Z
correct lay out now?
Yep, that's right. Sorry, can't write...
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 08:13 PM
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cool. my wife uncle is coming to visit. He is a Japanese cultural professor or something of the sort. Lived in Japan for many years, I am going to see if he knows how to write it.

If not I will look for better looking symbols.
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Old Oct 26, 2008 | 03:20 PM
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Can anyone write Olivia in Kanji for me? top to bottom style.
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