TATTOO artists have revealed the trends they hate inking onto customers' bodies. From inspirational quotes to Chinese words and religious ... do YOU have any of these designs?

so I recommend giving yourself a good few months to really toss around some ideas before you settle on one. It can be easy to want to get a one-word tattoo that you see everywhere online ...

But not everyone who gets a tattoo with Japanese ... to have Japanese and Chinese characters inked into their skin. “As long as it’s not a stupid word, they don’t care about what the word ...

He saw his first makes-no-sense-in-Chinese tattoo as soon as ... His point: These are actual words that billions of people on the planet can read, not just pretty designs. "The goal of my Web ...

The blog, which is run by Chinese American ... Not all of the tattoos on Hanzi Smatter are gibberish, though. Some people have ended up with phrases and words that they didn't ask for - and ...

Tattoos of Chinese characters have long been ... Others have been less felicitous with their choice of Chinese words, with combinations that leave native speakers scratching their heads.