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can you tell me what this means and what language it is?enter image description here

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  • How old are you? :)
    – Pedroski
    Commented Oct 12 at 6:58
  • Judging from the skin tone, and doing a tattoo without knowing the language, he is quite young?, at least at the time the tattoo was done?
    – Wayne Cheah
    Commented Oct 12 at 7:39
  • It looks like the tattoo was applied as its mirror image too. It is more common than I thought, as to someone who does not know Chinese, they consider some chinesee characters to be symmetrical, but it is rarely the case.
    – Yu Zhang
    Commented Oct 12 at 10:30
  • I went from what I saw on the wall at the tattoo shop, got this tattoo long ago before the internet and goggle. I did meet a guy at work a while back who did say that yes it could mean heaven but I never asked the guy what language it was in, now that I google it I see many similar symbols but nothing exactly like what I have, which is why I came on here
    – Ronnie
    Commented Oct 14 at 2:56

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It should be "天" - sky; heaven; god. Unfortunately, the tattoo artist made it like "夭" - die young.

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Note, before getting upset and arguing with the tattoo artist, depending on the word paired with it in a compound word, the word "夭" can also mean - young; be delicate and charming; tender and beautiful. (夭娇; 夭妍; 夭桃; 夭饶; 夭冶)

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  • We need to know the words on top to know what it really is? It looks a lot like "夭"?
    – Wayne Cheah
    Commented Oct 12 at 7:36
  • The words above are my cousins name who died and I had the symbol for heaven or what I thought was tattooed below his name
    – Ronnie
    Commented Oct 14 at 2:53
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    Sorry for your loss. Now it probably make sense as your cousin died "young"?, and so it could be "夭" , (youthful passing), or "天", (in Heaven) Perhaps the Tattoo master really knew what he was doing, assuming you explained the sad situation to him?
    – Wayne Cheah
    Commented Oct 14 at 8:21
  • thank you, I had not thought of that, maybe he did change it to better suit my situation
    – Ronnie
    Commented Oct 15 at 19:56
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    I did that but it says I need 15 reputation to cast a vote but my feedback was taken. I said thank you in my reply to him, thank you.
    – Ronnie
    Commented Oct 16 at 2:44

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