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What a Japanese person actually thinksReads like an item list — the same shape as 塩と胡椒 (salt and pepper). The と in the middle is what kills it.
Meaning
- Literally
- strength and honour
- Actually
- Comprehensible, and entirely un-idiomatic. Japanese mottos compress into four-character compounds; they don't list nouns with と.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Grammatical, never said. The English original comes from a film, and the structure doesn't transfer.
Coolness●●●●●
Also inherits 名誉's legal-and-bureaucratic baggage on top of everything else.
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剛毅果断
gōki kadan
resolute strength and decisive actionA real four-character idiom with the same energy, compressed the way Japanese actually compresses things.
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義
gi
righteousnessIf honour is the real point, one character does it better than three.
On skin
力と名誉
Orientation: vertical
N/A — change the words.