I like the picture of a man's fist grabbing, pulling and streaching the balls down, ready for them to be cut off, and a sharp butcher knife in his other hand...it looked self explanatory what was about to happen next. I saw it the first time I came to Eunuch.org a few years ago. If not, it could have been the bme site.

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Well I have the Kanji for eunuch in my pain heart tattoo which is included below:

Pain Heart tatoo (http://iam.bmezine.com/g/y/ci8g9u/044rd00m.jpg)

Many interesting suggestions, though I think the less arcane the better, that is if anyone is interested in others "getting it".

There are three possibilities that appear to fit the bill best IMHO.

The male symbol with the arrow detached, which someone said was what zoologists used to indicate a castrated animal. That would easily figured out by anyone seeing it and would have some "official" standing.

Second best is the male symbol with a line through the arrow.

And third is the male symbol with a split or open section in circle.

Now who has an idea for what a female symbol should be when there are no longer ovaries?

Something I should have done sooner, but I finally got around to it. I’ve put together a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file with the Chinese characters for the words for “castration” and “eunuch” in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

The page includes the Chinese characters (in a large font size), the pronunciation in each of the languages using that word, and the root meaning of each of the separate characters. The list includes three words for “castration” (none used in all three languages) and six words for “eunuch” (only one of which seems to be found in all three languages).

Of the three languages, Japanese and Korean are distantly related – more distant than, say, English and Russian. Chinese is far more remotely related. Japanese and Korean are actually more closely related to English than either is to Chinese. They use the same writing system for historical reasons.

If there is anyone who would like to receive a copy of the PDF file, please send me a Private Message here at the Archive giving an email address that can receive attachments. Hotmail and Yahoo accounts work very well for this. I’ll be happy to send it along.

http://www.eunuch.org/eunuch_kanji.pdf

OR click here.