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What a Japanese person actually thinksReads like a subtitle rendered by someone working too fast. It has the shape of a phrase without being one.
Meaning
- Literally
- fear + none
- Actually
- Comprehensible as 'there is no fear', but the construction is archaic-flavoured in a clumsy way, and writing なし as 無し here is a common non-native tell.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Not ungrammatical exactly, but nobody writes this. It reads as constructed.
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The mixed kanji-hiragana-kanji rhythm looks unbalanced as a tattoo, on top of everything else.
Watch out
- medium無し for なし is the kind of over-kanji-fication that immediately marks text as non-native.
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不動
fudō
immovable; unshakenTwo characters, dense, and it carries a Buddhist association (Fudō Myōō, the immovable wrathful deity) that gives it real backbone.
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恐れ知らず
osoreshirazu
one who knows no fearThe natural Japanese phrasing of exactly this idea. Longer, but actually said by actual people.
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剛胆
gōtan
bold; dauntlessA real word meaning fearless-in-the-face-of-danger. Compact and strong.
On skin
恐れ無し
Orientation: either
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