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 ...

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 ...

No matter how pretty they’re now, every tattoo becomes an ugly mistake in three decades: deformed, dangling obscenely on loose wrinkly skin. The Chinese characters that these imbeciles got, however, ...

David Beckham has shown off one of his famous tattoos while appearing in China. The British footballer was photographed lifting up his shirt to reveal his body art, which is written in Chinese hanzi ...

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