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People search for this as: soy sauce

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Soy sauce.

What a Japanese person actually thinks

The label on a bottle. To be fair, 醤 is a genuinely handsome, complicated character — which is presumably how it ends up in flash books.

Meaning

Literally
fermented paste + oil
Actually
Soy sauce. The condiment.

Scores

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Correct.

Coolness

One point, grudgingly, for 醤 being visually magnificent. The meaning gives it all back.

Watch out

  • highBeautiful-looking characters get pulled into tattoo flash sheets with no regard for meaning. Always check the word, not the shape.

On skin

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