More reasons to avoid tattoos---incorrect chinese symbols

[Inland]

http://hanzismatter.com/

Cool site about people with nonsense, bad grammar and incorrectly drawn hanzi.

[tuvor]

1. I guess it's like the counter to engrish.com

Ignorami on both sides of the pacific!

[Inland]

2. HAH!

Didn't know the site but have seen similar stuff.

[Inland]

29. Turns out the blogger is a fan of engrish.com

cites it as inspiration. So there you go.

http://www.hanzismatter.com/2004_09_01_archive.html

[LynzM]

3. Anyone who gets characters without checking them....

It's their own damn fault, IMHO. I talked to the Japanese prof at my university before I got mine, just to be sure. Still, makes for some funny reading!

[Ladyhawk]

4. I'd check with several sources first. :)

I can just imagine...damn. :)

[LostinVA]

43. That's what Japanese colleagues are for...

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Yes, my partner loves to laugh at the shirts and hats and other

"hip trendy Chinese writing" that the kids today - especially the inner city rap, hiphop, and salsa culture, but also the white illiterati culture of the suburbs and the rural James Dean wannabe assholes - wear with great pride and sense of self-worth.

Sometimes they were very funny, these guys trying to be all hip and shit and phat and whatever, and wearing a symbol that means basically "shithead" or something dada like "Cabbage pole rider" or "pants-wetting book glypher".

I wish I could remember some actual examples, but I can't.

[Inland]

25. See, that's what I'm talking about.

I'm not going to be called a cabbage pole rider. Whatever it is, it's not good.

[Ariana Celeste]

6. Crap.

I'm suddenly worried that my tattoo may be something completely different than I think it is.




Oh well. It still looks cool.

[Shine]

7. My cousin has a funny story about that:

He's a cop in the midwest and one time he was arresting some guy who was particularly proud of the new tat he'd gotten b/c he thought it made him look like a mean mother-fucker.

....only problem was, the tattoo said "SATIN", instead of "SATAN" Duh. :eyes:

:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

8. Betcha 'ol "Satin" was a big hit

in county.:rofl:

[Shine]

10. Yeah, isn't that a classic story??

When I heard that, I laughed so hard I cried.
:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

11. "Ain't no jail built yet that can hold.......

.....SATIN!!!":rofl:

[EstimatedProphet]

9. I checked mine first

[TimeChaser]

14. What does it say?

[EstimatedProphet]

15. One is the symbol for water

There is one that has the symbols for harmony and energy
One is the symbol for sword
One has the symbols for year of the rabbit and year of the tiger

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. A friend of mine once saved a major university press from embarrassment

by telling them that the Chinese characters on a proposed design for a book cover were upside down.

Another time, an advertising poster for Berthold Brecht's play The Good Woman of Setzuan had the title of the play correctly translated into Chinese, but the designer had randomly taken the middle character of the five-character phrase and put it on the line above, the equivalent of writing

Of
The Good Woman Setzuan

[Inland]

27. A client of mine pointed out that a martial arts "school"

was handing out certificates that translated literally into "sex house". Not really the expression for whorehouse, but pretty strange. Of course, he pointed it out on his website and got in a spitting match.

[TimeChaser]

13. Well, at least I know what I want

Someday, I want to get "Akai Okami," "red wolf" as a small tattoo (probably in a discreet area, like my ankle or something)

[sakabatou]

17. Uh... Time chaser

Your tattoo would say, "Red Mistress"

[TimeChaser]

19. No

Okami is wolf, I know, although it doesn't surprise me if there are a shitload of other meanings. Just as kami means "hair" "paper" and "god." However, I know the right kanji :)

[sakabatou]

20. Right kanji, wrong spelling...

If it were Katakana or Hiragana, it would be different. No... it would be a different kanji, since the onyomi of o is different from oo.

Gettting a bit too techincal.

[TimeChaser]

34. And

it also depends on which style of romanization you're using. In some versions, you get "oo" "ou" or "ô"

Isn't Japanese fun ^^;

[sakabatou]

37. Yeah

It sure is :sarcasm:

[Chovexani]

16. Which is why I'm getting a Blood Sin on my back instead

[XemaSab]

18. All the more reason to go with Egyptian glyphs

Hey, at leaat if they're fucked up not many people will know and call you on it...

[WindRavenX]

21. I speak/write Japanese

So my two kanji tattoos are correct.

Tsuru-crane

Jitsu- truth


and yes, i hate people who get random kanji tattoos without knowing what it means :eyes:

[GirlinContempt]

22. I think it's pretty bizarre to get a tattoo if you don't really

have any idea wtf it means

[Inland]

26. Well, they thought they knew.

I guess it's more meaningful if you have to translate it? I dunno.

[ghostsofgiants]

38. I believe the word you're looking for there is stupid, actually.

Not bizarre.

[GirlinContempt]

42. Stupid works too

I mean, even if you *think* you know, if you get 'tricked' you clearly have no real idea. Why would you get a tattoo if you couldn't even understand wtf it said/meant?

[KitchenWitch]

23. I always joke with my husband when I see a chinese character tattoo

"It says Kung Pao Chicken!"

:rofl:

[trogdor]

24. That's not what I read.

I thought it meant, "Welcome to City Wok."

[Inland]

28. Hey, that would be a great tattoo.....

At least, as good as any other.

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. It says "Dishes With Spicy!"

[ucmike]

30. my tattoo artist has one on his neck.

he got it from a menu, it means "chicken and brocolli". he did it as a protest after the entire class of '97 came in asking for chinese/japanese symbols. he won't do them anymore. he has a newspaper clipping on the wall in his booth. i read it as he did my last one.

he is definitely on the fringe.

[jmm]

32. If anybody still needs a reason to avoid Chinese tattoos

[Inland]

33. The feared result.

[jmowreader]

36. The best part is, the tattoo's right

At the end of the day, or even at the beginning of it, that guy looks like the north end of a southbound mule.

[ET Awful]

35. LMAO - Shawn "Demon Bird Mothballs" Marion

http://www.hanzismatter.com/2005_11_01_archive.html

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

39. I wonder...

Do Japanese kids get random english tattoos?

[Inland]

41. Back to engrish.com

more like t shirts.

[Strong Atheist]

40. Oh, boy!

:popcorn: