Hanzi Smatter--- Chinese Tattoo Fails

[neosapien]

Pretty funny blog. People post their Hanzi/Kanji tattoos and these 2 guys tell them what they really mean. http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/

Acouple funny ones.

Monday, November 19, 2012


[FONT=&amp]from: JK[/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:09 PM[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]subject: Tattoo meaning if any?[/FONT]
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[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]I got this tattoo 17 years ago in NYC. Tattoos were not totally legal in the city yet and I was underage. Internet was not in full swing either. The tattoos were supposed to have read, "Strength and Courage." I'm sure they don't. LoL! If you could tell me what the characters mean (if anything), I would appreciate it.[/FONT]
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[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]Thanks,[/FONT]
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[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]JKreasy[/FONT]



小畜 "little animal" and 大過 "big mistake".

from: Roger P.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:39 AM
subject: Co-worker's Tattoo

Hi there,

I was talking about your website with a co-worker of mine, in reference to one of your articles. She wanted me to find out if the tattoo she got really means what she wanted it to mean (obviously!). Here is a pic of her tattoo. She thinks it means "Bitch." What does it look like to you?

Thanks,

~Roger



Why would anyone wanted to label themselves in such negative way?

Typically bitch as noun is translated as 母狗 and 婊子 as slang.

What this woman tattooed 贱女 really means "cheap whore".

from: Dana H.
to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:51 AM
subject: Tattoo Question

A girl I know from high school recently got this tattoo on her arm. She says it means "beautiful", but a friend of mine says that isn't so, and that 美 is the Chinese character for beauty. The top part even looks like a series of triangle brackets, not like any Chinese character.

So what does this really mean?



災 means "calamity, disaster, catastrophe", and definitely not "beauty", which is 美.

 

[GrowinTheDank]

Hahahaa that's pretty funny

 

[SFguy]

straight comedy remind me to know a language if im tattooing it somewhere on my body

 

[meechz 024]

Had a good laugh at the gamer kid one. For anybody who didn't check out the older blog posts, I'm talking about this online gamer kid who thought he got "outlaw" tattooed on him but it ended up meaning, a hiding criminal....which is a snitch..........and there is no glamor around criminals in Chinese culture like here in America, they are just the lowest scum to everyone. Complete failure.....

 

[Indagrow]

This chick wanted 'bitch' too..seems like both sides can't get it right

 

[tyler.durden]

 

[Olive Drab Green]

Pretty funny blog. People post their Hanzi/Kanji tattoos and these 2 guys tell them what they really mean. http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/

Acouple funny ones.

Mei is beauty.

 

[Olive Drab Green]

 

[Jp.the.pope]

I went to high-school with a meathead who got a full size back tattoo his senior year....8" letters at the top of the back....only issue was dude couldn't really spell to well.

He walked in and asked for 'strength through adversity'

He spelt it for the artist without the g.....totally his fault......

Strenth through adversity

Gotta have strenth

 

[Singlemalt]

Ivwent to high-school with a meathead who got a full size back tattoo his senior year....8" letters at the top of the back....only issue was dude couldn't really spell to well.

He walked in and asked for 'strength through adversity'

He spelt it for the artist without the g.....totally his fault......

Strenth through adversity

Gotta have strenth

This would have been better: Strenth through YUGE adversity

 

[cannabineer]

I must say that Hanzi Smatter sounds like a rural Austrian fellow.

 

[lokie]

I would like to hear the stories behind each of these tattoos.
I wonder how many would be the truth?

 

[Olive Drab Green]

You posted something that was a lie. For instance, the first one here is Ai/Love.

 

[lokie]

You posted something that was a lie. For instance, the first one here is Ai/Love.

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It's on the internet. It must be true.

Its good that you can read that. That chick may not be as foolish as the
meme artist was trying to portray.

 

[Olive Drab Green]

It's on the internet. It must be true.

Its good that you can read that. That chick may not be as foolish as the
meme artist was trying to portray.

I passed Chinese I with an A- and Chinese II with a B+. Despite being in class 20-30% of the time I was supposed to. I love languages.

 

[Singlemalt]

You posted something that was a lie. For instance, the first one here is Ai/Love.

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Maybe it's "love beef crap" instead of salty beef crap

 

[BarnBuster]

@neosapien is it correct to say the language is Chinese and, say Mandarin, Cantonese and Wu are just "dialects"?
I've wondered about this.

 

[Olive Drab Green]

@neosapien is it correct to say the language is Chinese and, say Mandarin, Cantonese and Wu are just "dialects"?
I've wondered about this.

Yes. Cantonese and Mandarin are on a Southern Country-Northern Country kind of scale, or at least mostly. I forget which is which. However, there are legitimate differences in words and phrases.

I think Beijing is more Mandarin, Hong Kong is more Cantonese.

 

[lokie]

Yes. Cantonese and Mandarin are on a Southern Country-Northern Country kind of scale, or at least mostly. I forget which is which. However, there are legitimate differences in words and phrases.

I think Beijing is more Mandarin, Hong Kong is more Cantonese.

kind of like in the US. It is english but is it yank, hillbilly, creole, valley girl or guido?

 

[Olive Drab Green]

kind of like in the US. It is english but is it yank, hillbilly, creole, valley girl or guido?

More official and structured than just colloquialisms.