Four Wude Tattoo

[DarkWarrior]

Hello, I'm planning to get the four Wude tattoo on my arm. I just want to confirm first that it actually means what the game says it means.

I see in Google translate it doesn't exactly translate to what I thought it was. Is it simplified or traditional Chinese? Or is it something else?

I would hate to get the for Wude permanently on me and then every Chinese person I encounter laughs at it due to an inaccurate translation.

Can anyone clear this up for me?

 

[Guppy]

From what I understand, the four wude characters aside from YI appear to be all Kanji, so a Chinese person likely would not even know how to read your tattoo (Technically YI is also a Kanji word). Probably not even Japanese people would know what to make of the tattoo as it would appear to be just random words to them. I am saying this because as far as I know, Wude, which means martial morality, is an ethics system and there are way more "virtue words" than just the four presented in the game. Not sure if that's the route you were thinking of, but personally I'd think you better go just for the word Wude itself (武 德, characters in traditional Chinese btw).

 

[DarkWarrior]

From what I understand, the four wude characters aside from YI appear to be all Kanji, so a Chinese person likely would not even know how to read your tattoo (Technically YI is also a Kanji word). Probably not even Japanese people would know what to make of the tattoo as it would appear to be just random words to them. I am saying this because as far as I know, Wude, which means martial morality, is an ethics system and there are way more "virtue words" than just the four presented in the game. Not sure if that's the route you were thinking of, but personally I'd think you better go just for the word Wude itself (武 德, characters in traditional Chinese btw).

This is very helpful. Something to consider before I choose the a design.
Thank you!