Tip to avoid a costly mistake!

Due to the ever growing popular interest in Chinese character tattoos, the need for expert Chinese tattoo translation is becoming more and more evident. Don’t go rushing down to your local tattoo parlor and pick a design from the wall, the chances are that the translation is sketchy at best…

Modern day Chinese Language

There are no clear cut figures on the amount of Chinese characters, but estimates are around the 80,000 mark. The majority of these symbols however, are either archaic or obsolete.

• The modern day Chinese language has two systems of writing, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.
• Simplified Chinese is the most commonly used.
  • Each Chinese character represents either a one syllable word, or a syllable within a word. Using this form of writing allows for translation of an English word by the way it sounds.
  • When translated properly, Chinese calligraphy can be used to great effect for various forms of tattooing.

The Chinese tattoo symbols that you find on most tattoo parlor walls, while 75% will be a pretty good translation, the rest will be a version of the original, which isn’t great for anyone looking for a decent Chinese tattoo. Most will have now heard of the story of the teenage girl who had her boyfriends name tattooed on her stomach, only to find out from a native Chinese speaker that it actually translated to “supermarket”. The unfortunate woman had selected what she believed to be a translation of letters representing a name, however when put together in Chinese, spelled “supermarket.”

Chinese design translator

Do you have a phrase or saying in mind for your Chinese Tattoo? Why not get an expert to do it for you? It is very easy to confuse contexts and meanings during the process of Chinese tattoo translation. Why not go to a Chinese design translator and have your words correctly translated into Chinese.