Translation of kanji symbol to English

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Author Message   Melissa Woodruff Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 10:40 am:    I need to know what a symbol means in English. It is on the SHI Comics that my husband and I collect. I am thinking of getting a tattoo of it, but I would like to know what it means first. Thank you, Melissa   Melissa Woodruff Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2001 - 10:42 am:    http://www.shiweb.com/images/shi_patch.jpg. That is the web-site with the picture on it. I left it off accidentally.   info Posted on Friday, March 30, 2001 - 04:04 am:    Dear Madam, This character means simply "death". It is composed of 2 components: the left component means "bone" while the rightside gives a phonetic value "shi". This is the classic method de create complex characters by combining a phonetic value and a key component which may suggest the final meaning (bone->death in this case). If you need the meaning of other kanji characters, please download a demo version of Free Light Japanese which gives the meaning of the most important 1945 characters. Kind regards.