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People search for this as: humility humble modesty

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Safe to ink

Correct — with the small irony of announcing your humility on your skin.

What a Japanese person actually thinks

Positive but faintly self-undermining as a tattoo. A Japanese person may enjoy the paradox of advertising modesty in permanent ink.

Meaning

Literally
modest + empty
Actually
Humility, modesty. A highly valued trait in Japanese social life.

Scores

Naturalness●●●●●

Common word.

Coolness●●●

Good characters, slightly abstract, and the medium argues with the message.

Watch out

  • lowWearing a virtue you claim to have is a different move from wearing one you aspire to. Worth deciding which you mean.

On skin

Orientation: vertical

Mincho.

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