Chinese Tattoos Symbols and Meaning

The Chinese use a sophisticated script, which originated in about 3000 years. On different materials such as bones, pottery, brass vessels or bamboo strips found this written testimony. But did you know that the Chinese language has no alphabet? It is based more on a huge number of symbols that represent the linguistic expression and ideas. Many people make the mistake that you think Chinese symbols were pictographs. However, this is a misconception, since the entire spoken word is presented.

Big mistake

Many feel safe knowing the meaning of the Chinese characters that they want to be stand on their skin. But this need not always be the case and it may finally end with an embarrassing tattoo. We say this situation as “chinese tattoo fail”

What should I do?

Before you can stand Chinese symbols, check this before with someone who can read Chinese and understands it.

Chinese Calligraphy is a precise art and sometimes accurate and are already missing in the tattoo design small detailed strokes. Therefore, allow your template to create a translator for Chinese characters or check. But also the artistic flair of the tattooist can turn your Chinese characters into gibberish. Therefore we want to emphasize here again the importance of an accurate template. Only you can save yourself a lot of trouble from the start.

Good to know

Do you know that Chinese names are written in reverse order? That means the last name comes before first name. Her Western name may be unfamiliar to the Chinese language. Because of certain Chinese symbols must be chosen to spell your name. Since there is no Chinese alphabet, symbols are selected, representing the pronunciation of your name.

Nevertheless tattoos with Chinese Symbols (Letters) are very popular nowadays because they look really nice. As most of you read in the Western world do not speak Chinese, Chinese tattoo designs are considered an “exotic” form of expression.

Let’s face it. For many men the real reason why you want to have a Chinese tattoo that usually associated with this martial arts or karate movies is associated.

Kanji Tattoos

Kanji is one of the three common Japanese alphabets. The other two are called hiragana and katakana. Kanji is (= display symbols, ideas) is a collection of ideographic symbols. It was invented in China and is extremely difficult to learn. This is mainly because it occasionally in Japan well over 1000 kanji symbols for everyday use and about 1,000 other characters are used. In addition, the context in which the icons appear the pronunciation of each symbol partially changed dramatically.