Dragon and Characters
An U. S. Navy recruiter from Florida has emailed me these photos of tattoos on a new recruit. Since the characters were randomly chosen, therefore I am not going to spend too much trying to decipher what this piece of “skin garbage” really means. But, I am going to point out the incorrectly written characters.
I feel like a medical examiner staring at a badly charred corpse and comparing dental records.
The top character 黑 means “black”. It was poorly written but still somewhat recognizable. The second character 虎 (tiger) was never finished. It is missing the lower partial 几. 龍 (dragon) is poorly written, but was somewhat recognizable.
道 (way, path) is also poorly written.
The two character phrase 武術 means “martial arts”, but the positioning order has been reversed.
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French Tattoo Flash Mistakes
http://www.tattoo-passion.com/kanji.html
This lovely collage of mistakes is brought to you by a French website called Tattoo-Passion.com.
臣 means "minister", not "Bouddha" (English "Buddha").
仙 means "immortal" or "fairy", not "boxe" (English "boxing", the sport).
蔴 or 麻 means "cannabis", not the character shown.
魅 means "charm" or "attraction", not "demon".
儡 means "puppet", not "destruction".
卒 means "soldier", not "divorce".
夕 means "evening" or "dusk", not "enfant" (English "child").
子 means "offspring", not "esprit" (English "spirit").
祟 is written incorrectly and it means "evil spirit". Not to be confused with 崇, which means "worship" or "idolize".
帝 means "emperor", not "football".
魂 means "soul" or "spirit", not "grand pere" (English "grand father").
蛤 means "toad" or "clam", not "grenouille" (English "frog").
私 means "private", not "illegal".
嫉 is incorrectly written and it means "jealousy".
刺 means "prick", not "meurtre" (English "murder").
宗 means "ancestory", not "militaire" (English "military").
死 is incorrectly written and it means "death".
佛 means "buddha", not "paradis" (English "paradise").
The ironic part is the French
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"Body Cavity"
One young lady's boyfriend emails me this photo and asking what the character really meant. Apparently the young lady was told by the tattooist that the character is Chinese for "magic".
It would be "Magic", if you want to make cocaine filled balloons disappear by stuff them into your body cavity before the DEA agents arrest you at the border.
The character 腔 has multiple meanings, and one of them is "body cavity".
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