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| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
I love my tattoos. All have meaning to me and I desgined them myself (except for the Japanese character, which means 'life'). Oh yeah, I also have my belly button pierced, and my tongue, and my nose and ears. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! Bahaha, LOL!!
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That Kanji (at least when read by a Japanese person) doesn't really mean life. It's pronounced "sei", and it's the same sei as in Sensei. In most applications, it means student. (sen means previous, hence a sensei is a previous student, or a teacher).
To mean life, you need the character "jin" before it, to make jinsei.
It could very well mean life in Chinese... certainly not in Japanese though (actually, I don't know of a Japanese word that is THAT CHARACTER by itself... usually words are a combination of a couple characters).
It's also the u in umareru, which means to be born. First thing I thought tho when I saw that thing tattooed on your neck was "Student??? what's she doing with that tattooed on her?"
You can probably check it out on kanjisite.com; it's a JLPT Level 4 I believe.
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Why get a tattoo which others will look at more often then yourself if you are doing the tattoo thing for yourself and not to show off to others? 
. He also told me another meaning for it is "ruler". I think it was ruler...something about measurements or something.
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