Can anyone help translate from English to Chinese ideograms?
I am hoping someone can help with translating an English phrase into Chinese ideograms. It is a phrase that has a lot of personal meaning to me, and I am thinking of getting it tattooed on my back. The ideograms are for two reasons. The first is that I like the way they look! The second is that the message is personal, so I don't want every person to be able to read it (I am in Australia).
The phrase is "every end is a beginning". I had a troubled few years that saw me in a pretty self destructive cycle. I had a very good friend killed in a horrible way, and I thought for a while I was not going to be able to survive the time. There were a few things that kept me going, and one was trying to think that things would get better, and that every end in life was a new beginning of another phase (when one door closes another opens, that kind of thing). Anyway, that is the short explanation!
Thanks to anyone who is able to help me! Feel free to post here.
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诸位中国同胞,帖主想用汉字纹身,不要推荐她口语化的文字,中国文化讲究“一语道破精髓”。谢谢大家!
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每次的结束都意味着新的开始
每个结束都意味着新的开始
一个故事的结束是另一个故事的开始
结束的同时也孕育着开始
哪里跌到了,哪里爬起来
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Above translations cannot express the quintessence of literary Chinese very well, perhaps they are such lengthy explanations & impossible to be any tattoos on the body.
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the translations from upstairs are smart.and the phrase in china we can say:“每一个终点都是一个新的起点”。it means every destination is a new start! so,your friend just on his way of the new start.
take care:)
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I'm Chinese, native Mandarin speaker. In literary Chinese, we often use the idiom "否去泰來", "否極必泰", or "否極泰來", these parlance are all correct. & I think, the characteristic of Chinese is to illuminate complicated meanings, or abstract concepts in a brief sentence. I hope you always happy! Bye...
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sorry, i don't agree with 否极泰来 as the traslation. cause 否极泰来means everything goes in a circular way, when it goes to its trough, everyonge is desperate, and maybe it will begin to change to goes up to its peaks. life is a series of peaks and troughs. it is a quite chinese style phylosophy. but it is not fit for your requirement. but maybe it has few charactors so that good for you to do the tatoo. What i really recomment is 结束就是开始. hope could help a little.
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