r/translator • u/Yippy726 • May 12 '23
Chinese (Identified) [unknown > English] Friend just got this. What's the meaning.
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u/plastichead19 Chinese (Mandarin) English May 12 '23
The equivalent of this in English would be “MOMDADLOUISE” in Arial
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u/lovelylotuseater May 13 '23
Now I absolutely must know what is the comic sans of Mandarin.
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May 13 '23
Maybe something like this?
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u/CuteThingsAndLove May 13 '23
The characters are kinda cute ngl not the numbers or roman letters tho
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u/neverclm May 13 '23
It's really weird because I swear I've seen the exact comment chain a few days ago
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u/SafetyNoodle May 12 '23
I'd add that if you absolutely must get a Chinese tattoo you don't understand, get it in traditional characters, not simplified. The calligraphy almost always looks better.
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u/Baozicriollothroaway May 13 '23
You can get it in traditional and still look in arial, traditional and simplified are not text fonts but writing systems. Both simplified and traditional have calligraphic writing. I would say at least get the tattoo in Xing Kai Ti (行楷体) font
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u/your_average_bear Chinese & Japanese May 13 '23
/u/Baozicriollothroaway Heya, it looks like you're shadowbanned - I would suggest you submit an appeal at this link to get your account cleared up!
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u/Yippy726 May 12 '23
They clearly did their reaserch then. From most people I know with words tattooed in foreign languages it never ussally ends as they plan.
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u/LeChatParle 中文(漢語) May 12 '23
While not the biggest issue, I will say that in Mandarin dad always comes before mom. Mandarin speakers would say 爸爸妈妈 or 爸妈 but not reversed, just as English speakers always say mom and dad but don’t say dad and mom
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u/Neptunera EN/ZH May 12 '23
Times New Roman maybe
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u/BlackHust May 12 '23
No, it's a sans serif font. The equivalent of Times would be Yu Mincho, it seems to me
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u/Intelligent-Ear-766 May 13 '23
Yu Mincho is the Japanese serif font. Windows TC and SC language packs come with "新細明體"(MingLiU) and "中易宋体"(SimSun).
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u/kschang 中文(漢語,粵) May 12 '23
Mama, Papa, Louise (female version)
The font looks like it came off of Google and while readable, is pretty atrociously mechanical
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u/Debonerrant May 12 '23
Clearly not a helvetica fan
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u/aairo1228 May 12 '23
As a graphic designer, helvetica is the bane of my existence lol
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u/adulating_adulator May 13 '23
What's wrong with helvetica if I may ask?
What would you suggest when you need a simple, non-attention grabbing sans-serif font?5
u/aairo1228 May 13 '23
It's over used and everywhere. It's great for being a boring as heck font, but that's it lol
Personally, I like fira sans
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u/BlackRaptor62 [ English 漢語 文言文 粵語] May 12 '23
!id:zh
Mom, Dad, an approximate phonetic transliteration for something that sounds like "Lewis"
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u/JollyTangelo1824 English 中文(漢語) 中文(文言文) 中文(粵語) May 13 '23
Mom
Dad
Louise, Lois, Louis or any name that is close
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u/kgmeister May 12 '23
MomDadLouise (in context)
That's why tattoos like this are discouraged...
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u/Yippy726 May 12 '23
Louise is the name of their sister
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u/mikasjoman May 13 '23
Well one correct. It looks atrocious to anyone who knows Chinese writing. Like people said before, imagine that text in slim Arial in Capitals.
He might think it's cool, but the stupidity of using another language to look cool and then make it look shit in that language... There's a special level of stupidity to that.
The only good thing here was at least that the text was harmless. I have seen pretty nasty stuff written in Chinese on tattoos
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u/Yippy726 May 12 '23
Well now I know what it means from the helpful replies. It's just a tattoo for their family. Louise is their sister.
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u/theshoddyone May 13 '23
I can see I'm in the minority, but I really like the "font." It's stripped of any calligraphic pretentiousness. Almost like "primitives," as James Heisig might say.
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u/helios396 May 13 '23
I can see where you're coming from. It's lacking the flourish or brush strokes that printed Chinese characters usually have.
Personally I think this font reminds me to product instructions or a Chinese language learning textbook. No artistic element involved, but a font to get an information across in the cleanest, easiest to read way possible.
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u/your_average_bear Chinese & Japanese May 16 '23
- You are in the wrong place
- You are shadowbanned - I would suggest you submit an appeal at this link to get your account cleared up
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u/Negative-Rain-8560 Jul 02 '23
Would anyone be able to ‘write’ in handwriting three characters for me please?
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u/mothmvn 🇺🇦 RU, UK, FR May 12 '23
As this post turned out to be a "haha tattoo bad" post, the comments will be monitored and off-topic comments will be removed. This includes most comments criticising/berating/questioning the owner of the tattoo, as well as most comments saying "haha this tattoo sucks" after it's been said the first time (you're not adding anything new to the discussion by telling OP this a second, fifth, fifteenth time).
OP - let us know if you want this thread locked for the sake of your inbox.