“Dear Reader, It Meant ‘Concubine’”: 49 Tattoos That Don’t Mean What People Thought They Meant

Even though “Japanese or Chinese character as a tattoo” has been mocked for decades now, it really doesn’t folks from ...
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41 tattoos that don’t mean what people thought they meant

A mistranslated Chinese or Japanese character as a tattoo is the classic cliche of ink someone ends up regretting. So we’ve ...
Los Angeles Times

How Asian-language tattoos have helped me feel at home in my own skin

The Chinese language is difficult, and perhaps no one has struggled more with it than the inkers and bearers of America’s Chinese-character tattoos. Most infamous was probably the tattoo on Britney ...