30 Of The Most Cringeworthy Tattoos That People Who Are Fluent In Chinese And Japanese Have Seen

Well roosters can be pretty fierce...

IT SAYS C**K! 😆

I mean chickens can be fierce. But then I have a strange fear of them

Well to be honest some roosters are fierce.

Gotta love it. A guy at work was proudly wearing his tee that had a Chinese character on it. The woman next to me, who was born in China, said it meant "fruit". We never told him, though.

Gosh, only someone who is monolingual could think that an expression like "badass" could be translatable one on one.

Evil a**s - often the result of a large Taco Del Mar meal.

I remember this line on the Sopranos, when one of the characters said "Not a bad ass" about a woman. Obviously, he was talking about her physical "attributes" and not her courage or something.

Karma

If he was a badass, he'd have gotten the tattoo in English. Stupid an*s.

it take tons of courage to tattoo breastmilk on your arm

tbh as much as i do not like these kind of tattoos, i strongly believe the tattoo artist is a f*****g ass to write that down instead of what the client asked.

Next thing we know a guy gonna have a Russian tat spanning his forearm that translates to "Boneless Pizza"

Therefore, he proves his courage.

母乳

But wait... If he's bald it could have been on purpose. A stylish looking tattoo to those that can't read it, but a joke to those that do (or otherwise know what it means.)

You think it was intentional? I could see that being intentional

Actually, 鸡蛋 means chicken egg.

Hey, he's labelled!

Technically I think that word means chicken egg m

A man said to his wife, that when he dies, he wants to be burried with his money. When his day come, his widow starts spending uncontrollably. The lawyer who read the will reminded her that he requested to be burried with his money. She said "oh it's ok, I put a cheque in his coffin before his burrial".

You can't take your own money to the grave, but you can take someone else's money with you.

Reminds me of the infamous George Pullman was buried. He was a brutal employer and earned a great deal of hatred from his workers and labor supporters. Interesting secure burial! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pullman#Burial

Still way better than 'breastmilk' or 'bicycle'...

He can add the warrior and become spicy warrior now

I’d rather have spicy over cheapskate, chicken or breast milk.

Not great, but maybe he was a hottie when he was younger ;)

It was probably meant to say 幸 "happiness" but was missing a stroke and became 辛 "spicy".

Oh man this made me laugh. 免费 would have worked as well.. To be fair, the characters for 自由 are not as pretty as the characters for 免税 or 免费 ；-）

Well, depending on the style that could still be corrected with a cuver-up I think.

I think the moral is; if you’re going to get a permanent tattoo on your body that signifies something spiritual, make sure it is something that is close to your heart instead of some random symbol from a culture that is not even your own.

christ. yellow in Chinese means anything sex related generally...

i thought chinese people liked red wtf

Imagine if it said "黄色" lol 黄色 is chinese for "horny"

I'm confused. I have a nonfiction book in my children's library right now about colors and culture. It says that yellow is significant to the Chinese culture. Here's a whole article about it...https://bigchill.com/inspiration/blog/8-colors-symbolism-chinese-culture#:~:text=Yellow%20is%20an%20imperial%20color,good%20fortune%20to%20your%20household.

Here in the UK , a girl who is called a bike is an insult .

terrible one for a woman, in many places its slang for being easy AF

A simple web search could have prevented this: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%E8%87%AA%E8%BB%A2%E8%BB%8A

Wellll, you do have to be self-motivated to ride a bicycle... yeah, it's too much of a stretch.

Well, that was accurate. No doubt the Japanese interpretation was not well explained!