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Ben looks at some crazy mistakes with Chinese characters in tattoos westerners got done in China. Unfortunate mistakes with Chinese characters have left people with tattoos such as “Dumb American,” “Pig,” or several seemingly meaningless words tattooed on them.
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I don't think a white tattoo artist would tattoo "I'm a dumb Chinese" on an Asian client to fool him. If he did it would be the "racism" scandal of the month.
Asians wear random contextless English words on their T-shirts. That's better because at the end of the day when you're sick of being a dumbass you can just take it off. Tattoos are harder to remove.
comic sans
Traditional characters are ridiculously hard.
One of the most informative videos I've seen on Youtube in quite a while.
谢谢您！不容易啊
Tattoo is more often referred to 纹身….(pattern the body)
Chinese people are mentally disabled
why do dumb? Just google the right word. I've seen a foreigner who got the word "anus" on the back of his neck
一本正经的搞笑
Because Chinese pronunciation is a lot of repetition, sometimes the combination of several words literally means no problem, but it will have other meanings.
hahahaha
That restaurant bit… Lmao!!!
Please reply.. I got “日出” done a while back, but i want to add to it by putting “愛” and “家” above it, will that be okay? If you can read chinese would you read them as separate words like they are or would they become something else? I know some Chinese and I would read them individually.
😀
You're a king
I have the symbol for the Tao tattooed below my neck where a Christian would have a cross hanging from a necklace. I also have the characters for Tai Chi Chuan tattooed down my right forearm.
How tf did I find the guy from Generation Tech, but like 5 years ago? XD
Why words or letters are so popular to tattoo?
About the zodiac, in all zodiacs: 虎tiger 龙dragon are very cool animals, always be used on great people; 牛 ox/cow in Chinese have a meaning as “awesome”; 鼠mouse 兔rabbit 蛇snake 馬horse 羊sheep 猴monkey are just normal ones which don’t have weird meaning in Chinese; 狗dog 豬pig sometimes will be used to describe some small nobody may not so positive; the worst one is 雞roaster, as it has a similar pronunciation as the character which means “prostitute” in Chinese, prostitutes are also called “雞”.
What's the name of the app at 3:22?
坏男孩 does mean bad boy. its correct
谢谢啊
so your biased against simple tattoos?
fucking hilarious.
but i really do hate tattoos in general.
Awesome
I'm sad to tell you that溜冰 can also mean smoking Crystal meths in street language lol, I think that's what the tat artist really mean
And also have seen people tattooed "big butt" just for misinterpretation , it's not "Thic"
"溜冰"means cracking and then go to clubs dance and shaking head, it comes from 80's, sorry northern Chinese
I've seen one tattooed "I'm a dessert" on the back
I saw a plump Caucasian guy sporting a Chinese character tattoo, 胖子 (translation: fat guy). He said the tattoo artist told him it meant "strong guy."