Tears (namida)

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Here we offer 8 different hand-brushed Japanese Tears tattoo designs by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase. For these Tears tattoo designs the fonts are different, but the characters and the meaning are the same. So order the style you like - the meaning is the same for each design.

Tears in Japanese is 涙 which is read namida. The Japanese word namida meaning "Tear, Tears" is a single kanji word.

The modern kanji for namida has a small dot in the upper right removed - this is used in older forms of the character. Eri commented that she likes the older form because this mark looks like a falling tear.

Japanese nouns have no grammatical number or gender. So namida is both singular and plural which means that namida refers to a single Tear as well as to several. Learn more at Wikipedia's Japanese Language.

Translations You Can Trust: We want you to be as happy with the Japanese translation as you are with Master Takase's beautiful art. So we have made it easy to confirm the translation for yourself by simply clicking on Tears (namida) which links to the independent Jeffrey's Japanese English Dictionary. You can also verify the translation using Yahoo's dictionary entry Tears (namida).

With your order, you will receive everything you need for the perfect Tears in Japanese Tattoo. Your design comes as an Adobe PDF file which means it will print exactly as Master Takase brushed the design and, of course, it includes the line art (also called a stencil) which your tattoo artist must have to properly ink the design.

The Adobe PDF file completely documents the design and contains everything your tattoo artist needs to properly ink the design. Your tattoo artist does not need to know Japanese.