Mistakes in tattoo's using a combination of traditional and simplified characters

Mistakes in tattoo's using a combination of traditional and simplified characters
Jun 21, 2008 22:40
DESTRUCKDOZ Points: Join Date: Sep 30, 2007 Status: offline	I have seen this tattoo that has some errors in it because it is a mixture of traditional and simplified characters. My dad told me it confuses the reader but he didn't elaborate so I was wondering, if you saw these characters 鷹击長空 yet the 長 should be 长 to be simplified, what would it read? and if it were the other way around where in traditional 鷹击長空 the 击 should be 擊, what would that sequence read like? Danny

Jun 21, 2008 22:40

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I have seen this tattoo that has some errors in it because it is a mixture of traditional and simplified characters. My dad told me it confuses the reader but he didn't elaborate so I was wondering, if you saw these characters 鷹击長空 yet the 長 should be 长 to be simplified, what would it read? and if it were the other way around where in traditional 鷹击長空 the 击 should be 擊, what would that sequence read like?

Danny

Jun 21, 2008 22:50	#1
DESTRUCKDOZ Points: Join Date: Sep 30, 2007 Status: Offline	5 points if you know who's tattoo and where the couplet originates.

Jun 22, 2008 22:11

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In traditional Chinese, it is written as 鷹擊長空 (Ying 1 Ji 1 Chang 2 Kong 1). In simplified Chinese, it is 鹰击长空. By the way, 长(Chang 2) is a polyphone. You can read it as "Zhang 3" too. For example, you can say" 我长大了要当一名老师." In English, I want to be a teacher when I grow up.

Haha, I got the points. It is from "鹰击长空, 鱼翔浅底, 万类霜天竞自由 ", a poem made by Chairman Mao, which is called 沁园春*长沙 (Qin 4 Yuan 2 Chun 1 Chang 2 Sha 1). By the way, a TV series is also called 鹰击长空, which is about Chinese Red Army.

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