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First of all, this tattooed phrase is complete gibberish. It does not have any significant meaning in neither Chinese nor Japanese. They are four randomly chosen characters. The first character does not even exist in neither Chinese nor Japanese vocabulary; it was made to mimic the Chinese characters.
Plus, the calligraphy is absolutely terrible. The brush strokes' widths are inconsistent, which shows neither the tattooist nor the client had any idea about what proper Chinese or Japanese calligraphy should look like.
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