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Symbol · symbol_continuity

Continuity

The meaning of carrying on unbroken. Attested for the wave in Japanese tattooing, where the same sentence pairs it with resilience - the wave keeps coming AND withstands. Kept separate from symbol_resilience for that reason: the source names two things, not one.
Thin
Low confidencedraft

1 attested1 source · T2

Registry entry only

The corpus has no enrichment row for this concept (symbols), so it carries its label, description, aliases and provenance and nothing further. No visual traits or cautions are recorded — not because they failed to load, but because that data does not exist in the corpus.

Provenance

1 resolved

  • Japanese Tattoos and Their Meanings (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattooing 101

    Professional tattoo education page. Cited here for ONE architectural attestation only: "You’ll often see samurai warriors paired with temples as a way to tell a story about a brave and noble warrior who is ready to defend his honor and his people." The page's Japanese religious and mythological material is NOT drawn on here; it belongs to T11.10.

    professional tattoo source · retrieved 2026-08-30

Related concepts

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Can symbolize · 1

  • ← incomingWaveMotifAttested
    strength 0.50needs cultural review

    Tier 2, scoped to Japanese tattooing, from the second half of the sentence cited on rel_t118c_0012: waves “often represent continuity and resilience in the face of change”. The hedge “often” is the source's.