What kanji is this?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010...tery_N.htm

"Heath Warner, 19, who loved art and break dancing, had a Japanese Kanji tattoo on his arm that meant "kill evil instantly," Warner said...

On Wednesday, he brought pictures of his son's tattoo to compare with the tattoo on the body in the casket."

"kill evil instantly," - I bet this kanji was made by.... radicals!

quincy Wrote:"kill evil instantly," - I bet this kanji was made by.... radicals!

Apparently it's from Kenshin:

"He lives by the Shinsengumi code "Swift Death to Evil" (悪� �斬, Aku Soku Zan?, also translated loosely as "Evil Unto Evil," where evil is killing[4])... "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaitÅ _Hajime_(Rurouni_Kenshin)

nest0r, I don't see any 漢字...I just see weird squiggles.
I feel mortified by that article. How can people just dump the deceased into dirt piles?!!
>:C

quincy Wrote:"kill evil instantly," - I bet this kanji was made by.... radicals!

those primitive minded folk~

No matter what encoding I switch to, those characters won't display... :o

悪即斬

Saitō Hajime (Rurouni Kenshin) 悪即斬

sad

gyuujuice Wrote:nest0r, I don't see any 漢字...I just see weird squiggles.
I feel mortified by that article. How can people just dump the deceased into dirt piles?!!
>:C

I would prefer to be cut into chunks and fed to vultures in a traditional Tibetan Sky Burial

bodhisamaya,
Even though your'e jokeing I would prefer that as well. :O

gyuujuice Wrote:bodhisamaya,
Even though your'e jokeing I would prefer that as well. :O

Not joking.

Yeah I don't know what it is, but that bit about the tattoo gets me a bit maudlin. Something mutually embarrassing in the glimpse of this hint of Hanzi Smatter, the fictitious slogan and the matter-of-fact quotation of its literal translation, something of the classic Western otaku in the Kenshin reference, something youthful and naive amidst the earnest black and white militancy.

Reminds me of the humanity of the thing I suppose, politics briefly aside.