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I know the first character is 生, but I don’t know the second one.
Is there anything I can make fun of about this tattoo?
is it 生夢 ？
Yes. The meaning isn’t apparent to me. Fresh dream? Life dream? Or is a character covered by the shirt?
could be a part of the expression : 醉生， 夢死, used when your alcohol addiction has had you lost the meaning of your life. But according to my gf it cannot be taken out of the expression and doesn’t mean anything alone. Maybe someone who tried to write his name with phonetically similar characters ?
It does not sound like his name at all.
Maybe it’s 醉生夢, which google translates as, “Live in dreams” and yahoo translates as, “Is drunk lives the dream”
Yes. The meaning isn’t apparent to me. Fresh dream? Life dream? Or is a character covered by the shirt?[/quote]
This is also exactly what I’m thinking of. Maybe some of the characters are truly covered by the shirt, or is it possible that some of the “missing” characters are on the other arm?
There are some phrases with four characters containing “生夢”. Nevertheless, people here seldom use these two characters alone in daily conversation or even in writing. But when it comes to the four-character phrases, I can give you some examples, and maybe you can make fun of this guy according to this.
醉"生夢"死, while 醉死 were either covered by the sleeve or out of the picture. This phrase means one is so confused as if drunk or entranced. Occasionally it implies unwilling to bestir oneself but deeply indulge in ecstasy. So this guy is probably not having a fresh dream, but indulging in ecstasy, instead.
人"生"如"夢" or "浮"生"若"夢, means life is but a dream. Then the missing two characters might be on the other arm. If so, this guy might have a thought so surpassing that only these characters could reflect what he ponders.
Often the tattoos people get don’t reflect how people here use words at all 
but tend to be direct translations of abstract concepts, more in common with classical chinese maybe
[quote=“kau826”]
人"生"如"夢" or "浮"生"若"夢, means life is but a dream. [/quote]
That’s about what I was going to say, “life is but a dream”. From the hit song, Row, Row, Row, Your Boat. :discodance: