Wednesday, April 5, 2006

"Joe"

In Joe’s email, along with the photo, he says:

“After seeing your site I probably would be happier if I remained ignorant, but I have to know - what does my tattoo say? It was supposed to say, ‘Joe’.

My only defense in getting this tattoo, about 10 years ago, which I could not read, I was young and stupid.”



The three character tattooed are nowhere near “Joe”.

The two outer characters and are recognizable, but the center character is difficult to distinguish.

Typically, is the Chinese phonetical transliteration for “Joe”, and in Japanese kanji.