Chinese fortune tattoo… fails
These days getting a tattoo is quite common, maybe a bit too much even i’m think than someone who got no tattoo is now marginal. After the big wave of tribal bracelet tattoo on the arm become a bit too mainstream lot of people was thinking it was cool to have a chinese sign on their body. Since lot of them discover with supefaction than their tattoo not meaning what supposed to be. I don’t understand snake at the tattoo shop tell mean than this sign was meaning power, no way is meaning no reward. People are sometimes stupid to believe some people who don’t know the language, specially when they don’t even know their mother tongue language correctly. Anyway what’s the matter to have something write you can even understand yourself.
a bit of theory before laugh!
Chinese language involve lot of fine line and stroke, people who just copy and don’t know the meaning can easily make mistake. Chinese chararacters can completly change of meaning just by omitted a line or add one.
When you choose to get a chinese tattoo, you need to research yourself seriously the character you want to have from different source. More than one opinion is required to be sure that you will have a correct word ink for life on your body. Today their so much chinese people around you can help you avoid life mistake. Why not read about it and try to learn a bit of that language if you want to wear it all your life.
Chinese Script
Today there only a few thousand (that’s already already a lot) chinese symbols are commonly use for writing and reading. there more than 80 000 characters in the complete modern and traditional chinese. Most of these characters are not in use today. This large number of symbols make the chinese language and his meaning difficult to understand. Each symbol script illustrate an entire word and a tiny stroke change it in a totally different word. There two 2 type chinese scripts that use for writing chinese tattoo. These are the Kanji script and the Hanzi script.
The Kanji Script
The most commonly use in the west, use a single symbol to illustrate an entire idea instead of just a word. these kind of writing can be messed up quickly by an artist with a wrong thickness or incomplete line who will result to entirely different idea, or concept.
The Hanzi Script
Is a traditional chinese script use….It is used primarily in the inner circles of Chinese culture, and it also contains more characters. But here also, there are just a few thousand symbols, the knowledge of which makes reading and writing possible. Figuring out Chinese tattoos
Chinese Tattoos and Their Meanings
symbols and sign possess more than artistic beauty, they carry lot of history, mystism and legend, which make them attractive for tattoo. The fact than one symbol alone can mean an entire word or concept in a artistic make them attractive for body modification lover. But a little mistake in these sign can make a whole world of errorism for lifetime. Some people believe than Chinese tattoos and their meanings will bring good fortune and happiness.
lots of article on chinese tattoo mistake can be find around the web and in the press
The New York Times was published an article about people who live with chinese sign who not mean what they had expected.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/fashion/sundaystyles/02tattoos.html
“Tattoo artists — few of whom know Chinese — copy the characters from templates that are often of uncertain provenance and are easily corrupted if a word is unwittingly substituted, or if someone decides to take liberties by altering a few strokes. When two characters are combined to form what is in English a catchy phrase, context can be lost and the result can be hilarious — or worse.
“Everybody here that does tattoos, we understand that if you combine the characters together, they have a different meaning,” said Ricky Sturdivant, a tattoo artist in Normal, Ill. “We try to express that to the customers, but sometimes they want us to do it anyway.”
Chinese and Japanese character tattoos have been popular in the Western society for a decade or more now, everyone probably know someone who has one. They may tell you they know what their tattoo means. But do they really?
The blog Hanzismatter are focusing is content on translating odd tattoos, tee-shirts and other misused Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters in the West since near a decade. Is funny databank of ridiculous body inking picture is impressive and very popular around the cyberspace.
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/
A funny fact about some of the website laughing about tattoo with the bad meaning, is they make mistake in there translation, my girlfriend speak, write and read chinese and some of the translation are wrong. Like this example say is super market but the real meaning is dragon…lost in translation twice…..
the things are so serious than now a business niche to do some translation of chinese sign for tattoo done or before doing it
- translation service
Orient occident same old mistake….
This article talk about asian who got exotic english tattoo, with bad spelling or lost in translation….with all the product and business sign we see around Asia with english mistake is not surprising…http://www.8asians.com
Here one extract….
I’m sure all of my fellow Asian Americans under a certain age have seen this — a non-Asian person with tattoos in different Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese because they’re in an exotic language that they don’t understand. It’s kinda painful when someone who’s fluent in these languages have to point out that the words in the tattoo can sometimes be completely wrong — and mean something totally different and offensive (like our esteemed leader once wrote).
Turns out Asians in Asia are doing the exact same thing — getting tattoos in European languages because they’re considered exotic, and not caring if the meaning is incorrect.
The McClatchy news website talks about the increasing popularity of tattooing among China’s younger generation, despite many of the cultural taboos that go along with getting tattooed in China. Many of the taboos are similar to those here in the mainstream US: tattoos only belong on criminals or prostitutes. Those serving in the military or for the police must have no tattoos.
However, thanks to globalization and the extreme popularity of the NBA in China, tattooing has become more and more popular, especially among women. And because “the foreign is exotic”, as the author states, many are getting tattoos in different European languages, like Greek and English because they look cool — even if the meaning might be completely off.
A website who covers lot of english mistake see around Asia
Tattoo Boobies
Tattoo Boobies
Great short but complete article on common Mistakes Of Chinese Tattoos & How To Avoid Them
this short list illustrate the common mistake
- 1 Missing strokes and defacing Symbols
- 2 Chinese Symbols Being Tattooed Backwards
- 3 Mistranslation
- 4 Do not Know the Meaning
- 5. Choosing Kanji from Tattoo Parlors.
Some advice when planning to get a Chinese Symbol tattoo:
Your tattoo will be with you for the rest of your life, please make sure you get a right symbol tattoo at the first time. Otherwise, Laser therapy is the only way of removing tattoos that offers generally satisfactory results and minimal scarring. It is extremely painful and very, very expensive. A $100 tattoo “mistake” can cost several thousand dollars to remove — and not all inks respond well to laser treatments.
visit this website to read all great advice and reminder
http://www.chinese-tattoos-designs.com/chinese-tattoo-mistakes.html
Asia tattoo history and modern fact
Interesting article made a great coverage of the tattoo past history and current tattoo fashion in Asia. “Apparantly the first tattoos began accidentally—early man rubbed ash or soot from a fire into cuts and injuries to sterilize a wound. Tattooing became a rite of passage and soon evolved into a magical art.”
Despite tattooing has become pretty popular again among today’s youth. Even in conservative society like Burma, pop stars, celebrities and business people show their body art and promoting it as cool and trendy. The conservative Burmese regime doesn’t like tattoos. Local journal and publication in Rangoon have to censor the models and actor has tattoo on their body by erase it with photoshop.
“In November 2007, hip-hop star G-Tone was arrested after pulling up his shirt while on stage, revealing a full tattoo on his back. He was subsequently banned from performing for six months.” Tattoos in Southeast Asia have traditionally had paradoxical connotations: the sign of time spent in prison or membership in a gang or the sangha. simple tattoo fans including a wide cross section of society, from successful sportsmen and pop stars to soldiers and schoolgirls. Whether for cosmetic reasons or religious devotion, for mystical protection from evil spirits or for a simple sense of belonging.
The word “tattoo” is of Polynesian origin, meaning “to tap,” Examples of tattoo cultures and rituals are found all over the world and history from the Maori to the Maya, from the Celts to the Egyptians, from the Japanese to the Vikings. In Shan ethnic group, an old ethnies originally from Burma who now live around the world , but mostly in Thailand and Laos, young man are often tattooed from the waist to the knees as a sign of virility and maturity. The ritual was performed by the village medicine man, using a long skewer to apply traditional indigo ink or natural vermilion. The process could take weeks and the subject would be drugged with opium to ease the pain. Common designs were animals, zodiac signs and geometric patterns.
Tattoos also serve for protection and courage purpose today. Karen soldiers often have a black tiger tattooed on their chests, a habit that is also practiced by some members of the Thai Border Patrol Police.
Vietnam Tattoos no longer taboos
Since the end of vietnam War in the begining of seventies the tattoo in Vietnam always been associated with crime and bad people.
“Tattoos are no longer in a negative light, like in the past, so I want to commemorate my first love by getting one. Perhaps my girlfriend will also like it,” said Hung, a customer at Tattoo Club Vietnam. – Vietnamnet
Located in a small, deep lane near the Hanoi National Economics University, Tattoo Club serves maximum of two customers per day only. The club offers a wide variety of designs, ranging from simple roses and hearts to the more complicated, dragons (the symbol of power and strength), spiders (symbol of meditation), phoenix (symbol of hero), and also create based on customers’ requests and ideas. According to the club’s manager, customers include students, intellectuals, manual laborers, artists and foreigners.
England veteran artist in Cambodia
Article about England artist who open a shop in Cambodia in 2002 after is equipment was confiscated at Vietanmese border. It was supposed take a two week vacation in Cambodia but he decide to stay. The owner of Mark’s Marks Tattoos on the Street 350 was always fascinated with tattoo since the age of five now at 43 year old got the full body almost covered.
The artist start is career in the uk but fly fast to worked in the US, New Zealand and Thailand. Today, he’s still the only foreign tattoo artist in Phnom Penh. Most of his customer are foreigner in vacation want souvenir of their trip. Is the only one worker in his shop, i do all the job alone to clean the floor to answer the phone at desk. I don’t make lot of money but, i don’t go here for that….
for all the article visit this site
Tattoo and travel
Great article by a perpetual traveler have been traveling for 10 years in 46 countries on five continents. This guy is goldmine of information about traveling around the world on his personal website http://www.vagabondjourney.com
This article talk about the different perception people have of tattoo depending the culture and the country we visit. Is maybe not a good idea to show all your tattoo without know about the culture we visit. The tattoos attract attention, in Occidents you’re sometimes perceive like criminal or sex drug and rock’n'roll dude, in Asia in general is more recognise as tradition of protection related to religion.
I do not usually walk around in public in short sleeve shirts. To do so would bring entire cities to a halt in some parts of the world. I remember one time in Calcutta when I left my hotel in a sleeveless shirt and became an attraction for a crowd of hundreds of Indians. This was the last time that I ever did this. – Wade Shepard.
Today in most of countries around the world change his perception of tattoo. Slowly people take it more like personal expression and fashion things than sign of evil people.
Tattoo laser removal video
Video of a tattoo laser removal in philippines. A specialized clinic in the asia area, the government make a special program to help people find a job by removing their tattoos for free!
