Hanzi Vigilante Blogger

For the last two weeks of October, I was in Montreal, Canada. While I was there, a friend of mine has sent me link to a story published in the Vancouver Sun titled "More Skin, Less Ink" by Paula Brook.The story is about people's regrets of their own tattoos. Of course with that, yours truly was mentioned.I laughed so hard when I read the part where Ms. Brook referred me as:Hanzi Vigilante BloggerI...

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Caressing Flaw

Two weeks ago, I got an email from another U. S. Navy recruiter (I really think U. S. Navy should present me some kind of honorary award for my service) requesting tattoo translation. This young recruit got what he thought was "MC" tattooed on his chest.The two characters 摸 and 疵 are pronounced as "mo" and "ci" in Chinese. Perhaps that is where he...

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Monster Blog Tattoo.

A new entry at last! ... also, I reckon I should have called this page the above - except that people might find it harder to discover.MBT Act 2: Lamplighter is certainly coming along, will be of greater girth than Foundling, but i warn all those who hated the 'Explicarium' - it is the plan to have another, so watch out at the rear parts of the tome:...

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"This is a Tattoo" and "Fish Ball Soup"

It has been two years since I first started Hanzi Smatter. With almost 400 entries achieved here about poorly done tattoos, it is always interesting for me to receive emails from people who got humorous Chinese character tattoos.The first one I got is from Andy Scott and his “This is a Tattoo” tattoo: Hello, I just stumbled onto your site and I...

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"Kimberly"

http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A61003/high/bmepb365410.jpghttp://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A61003/high/bmepb365409.jpgMy friend Alan Siegrist writes:Hi Tian,Just browsing bmezine’s kanji tattoo web pages can be entertaining indeed. I just noticed an astonishingly stupid Japanese tattoo:http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A61003/high/bmepb365410.jpgIt is supposed...

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