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The first one is the Kanji for the emperor of Japan...do you want "a ｇod"? That's 神
The second one is indeed respect...sort of...It's the kind of respect as in "respectfully yours" at the end of a letter. What kind of respect are you aiming for? I think 敬慕 would fit with the rest
Fourth means carefulness。。。faithful as in religious? faithful as in devoted? faithful as in a loyal servant?
wealth, Karma and family are ok
Last one is, technically, a word for soldier...but only a low-ranking one. Kinda like "private", sort of. Go with 兵
It's good that you decided to have it checked! But the word combo spells out a particularly regretful gangsta tattoo.
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Please, don't do this to yourself. You'll regret it. I know I'm not your mother; I'm one of those who'd laugh at you if we met on the street. Just sayin'.
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If you want to get a a tattoo that seems like something a half-literate Yakuza would get, it looks fine to me.
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Hopefully you're not actually getting these done in the fonts you posted here. It would be pretty weird to get seven characters tattooed in seven different fonts. Though, even if you do get them in the same font, tattoo artists that don't know Chinese or Japanese usually write the characters in a very ugly way.
Anyway, I only know Japanese and not Chinese, which makes it hard for me to confirm whether or not the nuances are good (sometimes people get something in Chinese that is correct, but means something funny/stupid in Japanese, or vice-versa)
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More people should try to imagine having the English tattooed on their arms and realising that putting it into Chinese characters doesn't make it sound any less ridiculous, and gives the added factor of looking doubly silly in front of people who can read it.
If you have to get a kanji tattoo, go with a yoji-jukugo, because it's at least going to make sense in Chinese and Japanese. Don't make your first attempt at constructing a Japanese sentence something you have permanently written on your body.
I still wouldn't trust anybody who doesn't know either language to tattoo the characters on my body though. I've seen some outright botched attempts on the street, and nothing that looked like it was done by anybody who knows what they're doing.
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No matter how well you know, or how carefully you research the kanji, you are almost surely bound to fail. If not now then ten years later. A word may mean "courageous" now, but in ten years it gains certain sarcastic overtones and they'll only use it for "chickenshit".
Real world example: 乙(おつ) originally represents the second sign of the Chinese calendar, that's what you can read in a dictionary, that's how a Japanese person (over 30-40) would translate it, and I can imagine it as a tattoo on some superstitious chick. Unfortunately in the last decade it's meaning changed to "thanks", thanks to 2ch and the IME-s (it's short for おつかれさまです). Yes, it could be worse but still... Anyway, no one can predict these changes.
You should wait at least a year before doing it. If 12 months later you still want it... well, you really want it. I guess you are around 20; you will wear this thing for 49 years not 50. Not much loss.
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How would it look if you saw someone with "family, respect, wealth, faithful, general" in English tattooed on them? I don't think anyone would say it's cool...
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err 自尊 means self-respect... not respect.
Otherwise, what dizmox said.
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The other day I saw a gut with a kanji tattoo 神 (god) and I was getting ready to laugh when underneath it I saw in English "god". My point is this guy wasn't just trying to be cool or thinking an exotic kanji tattoo would be nice but he had a message that he believed in and wanted to share with the world and was willing to write it on himself in English too. He's the only guy I've ever respected with a kanji tattoo.
If you can not honestly say you would be equally as thrilled to walk around with those sale words on you in English then you aren't in a position to put them there in kanji. Kanji is a double edged sword... Words in Japanese aren't the same as they are in chinese... You will not wind up getting quite the right nuance for at least one or two, if not all of the words.
Kanji tattoos are a bad idea. Though there are some which may work and even be cool, dare I say it... this is one of those excruciatingly bad ones I see from time to time.
If it's still around on the web check out hanzismatter. Or just google botched kanji tattoos or something to that effect.
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Why not consider getting these 7 characters?
馬鹿
間抜け
阿呆
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Ah yes, the noble horse and deer. Symbols of strength and faith going back thousands of years. Back in the day, you weren't considered a true warrior unless you had that tattooed on your forehead.
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The picture you showed doesn't make any sense in the first place.
軍狐 doesn't mean anything, it's the character for 'military' and the character for 'fox' jammed together and that's all (and if 'army fox' seems like it means something in English - and that seems ambiguous at best to me - the problem is Japanese folklore has its own quite specific connotations for foxes.)
軍 -is- pronounced 'gun' and -is- the second half of 将軍 'shogun', which is basically a compound meaning 'leader of the army', or more naturally, 'General'.
帝 is not (in Japanese at least) a prefix for 'supreme' or any such. It's not really a prefix at all, although it shows up at the beginning of many 'imperial' words. It's tempting to call it the 'imperial' prefix, but I think it's more of a root word. I don't know about in Chinese, but in Japanese it is a character that really references the Emperor of Japan specifically (well, uses in fantasy literature for fictional empires notwithstanding).
You can't just jam any two characters together because an English word associated with them sounds good - if the characters are words by themselves then you now have two random words stuck next to each other with no grammatical context. If the characters together make a word, it will be the sheerest luck if that word means what you hope it means.
You need to decide also if you're writing in Japanese, Mandarin, or Cantonese if you hope to have any sort of meaning at all. Meanings have diverged in the three languages.
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That depends, what is a "karma fox"?
Karma (業) basically just means "work" and isn't in itself a spiritual word when it's not used in a spiritual context. If you just slap the kanji together it will mean "WORKFOX". Note: karma usually just means BAD karma. No karma is what Buddhists seek to achieve.
Also note that foxes are untrustworthy troublemakers in traditional Japanese culture (though Inari is one of the most important gods in Shinto among agricultural types, probably because if you don't placate her she'll ruin your crops).
So if someone gets that you mean karma and not work, you will end up having a tattoo that technically means someone who is untrustworthy and sins a lot.
It's also kind of awkward to mix a Buddhist concept (karma) with something that has strong Shinto connotations (foxes).
As others have said, think about if what you want tattood would sound equally cool in English. Putting it in kanji doesn't make it +5 awesome just because none of your friends can read it.
I will second the other posters who say use a set 4-character-phrase (yojijukugo) that has a meaning that aligns with your beliefs instead of a random assortment of kanji that aren't joined up and can be taken out of context. Ex: if you want to look like a tough guy get 弱肉強食 (literally: the strong eat the weak, or survival of the fittest).
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The worst that can happen is you end up with the western equivalent of an Engrish t-shirt slogan etched into your skin. 
