A Dragon named "Feist"? Or a crossbreed dog...?

Tim sent in the Chinese tattoo confirmation below:

"It was part of a dragon, you can see three claws on the picture.
It´s on the left body-side.

Waiting for an answer :)

Thx for translating."

Hi Tim,

According to my research, it looks like the characters are an incorrect version of the name "Feist".

This obviously is a name, as they are merely characters that are close to English sounds, and by themselves don't have any meaning.

If this is, indeed, the name "Feist", please see the attached for the correction version (read from left to right).

Note that Feist in English also refers to a small hunting dog. But I assume that this is a name rather than the name of a croosbreed dog..?

If it's not Feist, let me know what the intended name was and I'll see if it's anywhere close.

(Tim never responded to the above answer. Hope it was what he was looking for!)

The Chinese -Simplified- Characters for the word FRIENDSHIP

Colton sent a Chinese tattoo confirmation for his tattoo below:

Hi Colton,

This is a correctly written design of the word "friendship" in simplified Chinese characters (as opposed to traditional Chinese characters).

For a brief intro to the differences between SIMPLIFIED Chinese characters and TRADITIONAL Chinese characters:

    *  Simplified Chinese characters are used in China and Singapore. Traditional characters are used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and will also be seen on most Chinese menus and newspapers found overseas (US, UK, Australia, Canada, etc).

    * Character simplification was part of Mao Ze-Dong's pre-Cultural Revolution in 1960's China, which explains why Hong Kong and Taiwan continue using traditional characters. Because the simplified system is based on the traditional one, many characters are actually exactly the same in both systems.

Source: http://www.learnchineseez.com/learning-chinese-languages/

Therefore, depending on your audience, or if political ideals matter to you, the system of writing does make a difference.