Hanzis Matter

A brilliant little blog dedicated to combating ignorance in tattooing. They post images of tattoos that people send them and provide the real translations. Have a look here.

'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".'

If I ever get a tattoo with foreign characters I'm making damn sure I get it translated by a native speaker that I trust before I get it permanently scrawled on my body.

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