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Symbol · symbol_good_luck

Good Luck

The meaning of bringing or preserving good fortune. Registered separately from symbol_good_fortune, which entered the corpus at T11.8a from a Japanese-context source; whether the two should be merged is left to T11.11 rather than decided here.
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Medium confidenceresearched

2 attested1 source · T1

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

  • Every tattoo makes a statement but what do they mean? (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 1

    The Historic Dockyard Chatham

    Maritime heritage museum article on naval tattoo designs. Verbatim: records show designs that are "marks of love, loss and life events" while others demonstrate "national identities, religious faith, and patriotic pride"; "Each swallow represents 5,000 nautical miles in a sailor's career." One of the few tier 1 sources that speaks about tattoo subject matter as lived human experience rather than as art history.

    museum · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

2 links

Can symbolize · 2

  • ← incomingCompassMotifAttested
    strength 0.75researched

    Tier 1 maritime museum, whole entry: “A good luck charm to ensure that a sailor never loses his way and is always able to return home.”

  • ← incomingNautical StarMotifAttested
    strength 0.75researched

    Third reading in the same Tier 1 sentence: “It is a symbol of protection, guidance, and good luck.”