Westerners have been getting Chinese character tattoos for decades, but not all of them mean what people think. Jessie, a language teacher and creator of the Chinese with Jessie YouTube channel, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ocean Front Tattoo artist Mikey Ekimoto wears Korean symbols on his ring finger that translate to "Every moment is precious." On ...

Getting a tattoo design written in a language you don't understand is rarely a good idea. Even tattoos in people’s native tongues are often hilariously misspelled or misinterpreted. Tattoos written in ...

Even though “Japanese or Chinese character as a tattoo” has been mocked for decades now, it really doesn’t folks from deciding that it will somehow work for them. Data enthusiasts will already know ...

I remember a story about a guy who wanted to get the tattoo for "pain" tatted on his arm, and researched chinese characters himself. He proudly showed off his tattoos to his asian friends, who were a ...

Robert Siegel talks with Tian Tang, author of a Web site dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture. Tang posts photos of Chinese character tattoos that either contain errors or ...

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 ...