The kanji Chie, bit of a confirmation

Question

Hey all,

decided to get a different tattoo as I founded out that Meiyo is more of a distinction type of honour. So, the kanji Chie, this means wisdom?

lol in what sense of wisdom?

http://japanese.about.com/bl50kanji_chie.htm

Thank you in advance all

Answer 1

Looking at that web site, do NOT use that as a template for your tattoo! That is written in what is pretty close to block capitals, and perhaps might even have been copied (badly) out of a writing practise book! The baseline of the two kanji should be level, but the first one is too high, and the two rectangles at the bottom are far too curved.

Second, that is the usual characters for wisdom. To give it a bit more gravitas I would use the older characters, 智慧.

Answer 2

Yup, "chie"  ÃƒÂ§Ã‚ŸÂ¥Ã¦ÂÂµ is the Japanese word for "wisdom," with pretty much the same meaning as in English.  Wit, brainpower, knowledge, etc.  The word "eichi" 英知 also means wisdom.

Personally, if that were my tattoo, I would simply get the character "知.”  On its own the character means wisdom or knowledge, but as a single character its meaning is more ambiguous and encompassing than using a precise word like chie or eichi, and to me it seems more elegant.

If you get this inked on your skin, copy it from a more attractive example than the one you linked to above!  This page shows how to draw it in the correct way: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-b...

Answer 3

No good idea at all. wisdom is of course equal to Chie and the Kanji represents wisdom though because知恵 looks too girlish Kanji.

It is very awkward to demonstrate your tattoo on skin actually.