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People search for this as: free freedom liberty

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This means FREE OF CHARGE. As in: costs nothing. As in: you are advertising yourself.

What a Japanese person actually thinks

The single funniest thing you can have tattooed on you, and one of the most famous Japanese tattoo failures in existence. Every Japanese person who sees it will read 'FREE — NO CHARGE' and will have to work not to laugh.

Meaning

Literally
no + fee
Actually
Free of charge. Zero cost. It is the word on a sign outside a shop offering free samples.

Scores

Naturalness●●●●●

Impeccable Japanese. That's the whole problem — it flawlessly says a thing you did not mean.

Coolness

It is, admittedly, a great story. That is the only point available.

Watch out

  • highEnglish 'free' has two unrelated meanings. Japanese splits them: 無料 is free-of-charge, 自由 is free-as-in-liberty. A dictionary that gives you 無料 for 'freedom' has failed you.

Get this instead

  • jiyū
    freedom; liberty
    The word you actually wanted. Two characters, clean, correct.
  • jiyū honpō
    free and unrestrained
    If you want freedom as a way of living rather than an abstract right.

On skin

Orientation: either

N/A — do not.

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