Robert Siegel talks with Tian Tang, author of a Web site dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture. Tang posts photos of Chinese character tattoos that either contain errors or ...

Getting a tattoo design written in a language you don't understand is rarely a good idea. Even tattoos in people’s native tongues are often hilariously misspelled or misinterpreted. Tattoos written in ...

No matter how pretty they’re now, every tattoo becomes an ugly mistake in three decades: deformed, dangling obscenely on loose wrinkly skin. The Chinese characters that these imbeciles got, however, ...

In this video, I react to more Chinese character tattoos that went very wrong. From upside down phrases to characters that secretly mean things like gold pig, I break down what each tattoo really says ...

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