I have this two sentences:

**この正確な瞬間に** _Right in this moment_

**私が生きている** _I'm alive_

And I have to simplify this three kanji **確 瞬 間**. I've already opened a
question for it and they kindly explained to me that it's possibile to write
it with something like this*, but they also told me that it's better not to do
it, because simplified kanji aren't so common.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0v1Fh.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0v1Fh.png)

The problem is that I really need it to be simplified for a tattoo of a friend
of mine and we've thought that maybe katakana could be a good solution, but
I'm not capable at all to translate it and each sentence shouldn't be longer
than 8 "characters". The first sentence could be replaced with _"rembember
that"_ , perhaps it's better to translate...

Can you help us?
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translation kanji katakana
How to translate in katakana この正確な瞬間に私 - が生きている?
Katakana wouldn't be a good solution for your problem, because katakana are
used for representing loan words from other languages, or for emphasis.

It would look a little strange to have a Japanese sentence written entirely in
katakana. Completely in HIRAGANA would not be too strange... but a mix might
work better ...

If you don't need those words to be specifically in kanji, but want the
message essentially the same, since it seems like you're trying to say "I'm
living in the moment." I recommend:

ima kono shunkan ni watashi ga ikiteiru

今このしゅんかんに私が生きている。

It's not 2 sentences though, it's one sentence 16 characters long, as written.
(Plus the sentence ending mark, but it seems like that should not cause you a
problem.)

[!["living in the moment" Japanese
sentence](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ly10N.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ly10N.png)

If this solution doesn't work for you, I would need more information to be
able to think of alternatives. For example if this is not about living in the
moment, but more about "being truly alive" or something, the phrase would be
different.
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I hesitate to post an opinion-based answer about tattoo (no matter how
grammatically correct, they always end up appearing weird or hilarious to the
eyes of native Japanese speakers, anyway), but why don't you use simpler word
than 瞬間/正確? Japanese people cannot even read most "simplified kanji" used in
China. Don't mix them with kana.

正確 is a Sino-Japanese word meaning "accurate", as in "3.14 is more accurate
than 3 as an approximation of π". That's not the word you need in the first
place. 瞬間 by itself is not a bad word, but if it's too complicated for you,
it's way better to rephrase it than to try to distort the kanji. Katakana
would only increase the number of characters.

If the main message is "Remember I'm not dead, don't forget me", then
something like 「まさに今 私は生きている」 should be simple enough. If the message is more
like "I want to live fully in the present (rather than dreaming about the
future or looking back at the past)", then something like 「今この時を生きる」 should
work. (Again, I'm not saying such tattoos are natural to the eyes of Japanese
people.)
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私は今 生きている would be fine if you want something simple, I think. There's even a
song that shares the title.

<https://youtu.be/0dStGZXZeJw>

Feel free to play around with it.
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