風 · Wind
fū · kaze — “wind, air, style”
Wind — and the style and spirit it carries with it.
What it means
風 (fū, kaze) is wind — but also “style, manner, air,” the way something carries itself. It lives in 風流 (refined elegance) and 和風 (Japanese style). On skin it reads as both the element and a certain way of moving through the world.
Be clear which feeling you mean:
A storm — wind at full violence. Dramatic and turbulent, not the free, light air of 風.
Wind, air, and style — movement, freedom, and a way of being. The right choice for wind as spirit, not storm.
Watch for
風 is a clean single character, but some choose 嵐 (storm) thinking it means “stronger wind” — that shifts the meaning to turbulence. If you mean freedom and air, 風 is the word. Check it is not mirrored and that the inner strokes stay legible at tattoo scale.
In different scripts
The character carries the meaning; the brush style carries the mood. 風 in three of the most common scripts:
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