9 Epic Chinese Tattoo Fails

Feel like getting a "cool" chinese tattoo ? Well, make sure you don't end up having a failed chinese tattoo like those people!
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[@NyanCat1907]

I used to know this girl who showed off her new tattoo around school and everyone is like "woah" or "cool" but I was the only one laughing so loud because she told people it means beautiful/beauty (美) but her tattoo says pig (猪).

[@ohmaigods]

The strongest facepalm given by me

[@JariSatta]

NyanCat1907 (－‸ლ)

[@leongchau2268]

美 means America in some ways like on newspaper

[@samj3143]

+NyanCat1907 perfect~ this makes me happy :')

[@NyanCat1907]

Leong Chau​ yeah because America in Mandarin is 美国.

[@AlyssaTaylor9]

Not too long ago my small group from church got together and went to a homeless shelter to donate some homemade stuff and learn about volunteering. There was a Chinese couple in the group who hadn't been in the U.S terribly long. In the lobby where we were waiting there were 2 framed pictures of Chinese characters, he pointed them out to his wife and they murmured something in Mandarin while chuckling. Obviously we were confused so they explained, apparently one character meant "dreams" and the other meant "empty." "Empty dreams"- perhaps not the most uplifting thing to have in a homeless shelter.

[@Kpoper4life]

I remember going to an amusement park and a really beefy looking guy was talking to his girlfriend and told her that his new tattoo that "having power" in Chinese (有力) when in reality it actually read 有刀 which means "have a knife". So the my friend and I joked that the tattoo artist should have written 有刀有叉 which means "have a knife, have a fork".

[@gmeeks]

+kjcpoper LOL

[@darkfenrir13]

kjcpoper in nihongo (japanese) .those kanji really meant 'have' and 'power' .. (有yuu , 力ryoku) but none the less .. that beefy dude failed explanations.

[@Kpoper4life]

dark Fenrir I know that 有力 means to "to have power, but he didn't have 有力 on his arm.

[@darkfenrir13]

tha tattoo artist mustve run out of ink and said it look the same anyway.

[@Kpoper4life]

dark Fenrir I'm pretty sure the tattoo artist did it as a joke

[@AlyssaTaylor9]

My little brother and I have a pact to get the Chinese character for "cereal" (or if there isn't one, something equally as stupid) tattooed somewhere and tell the artist it means "Siblings" or some shit. But no, it will mean cereal, and we will be very aware it means cereal.

[@AlyssaTaylor9]

***** Haha will do, he's still got a while before he turns 18 though.

[@nataliac.531]

Genius!

[@ViwernWong]

+Alyssa Schiffman the closest word you can get to cereal would be 麦 i guess haha. siblings would be 兄弟 if you're brothers or 姐妹 if you're sisters

[@AlyssaTaylor9]

***** Next October, so it'll be a while.

[@AlyssaTaylor9]

***** Oh cool lol. I've got some friends who are Chinese and I was planning on getting it checked out with them anyways. You should never get a tattoo in a language you're not fluent in without consulting a native speaker/reader!

[@vazavaza6]

Here in Brazil, a thai tattoo artist known for doing japanese and chinese writing was arrested a couple of years ago because he trolled people who didnt knew the language by tattooing on them swear words or funny/mean words lol

[@jonathanpark2942]

LMAOOO

[@luanespedito1475]

nunca confie em um br que diz saber chinês.

[@voolchevee4527]

Funny in theory but none of us would be laughing if it happened to us.

[@evangeline77x]

Victoria Oleinik i have a friend who owns a tattoo shop, sometimes if someone's rude to him, or he doesn't like the person, he is known for shading dicks into their tattoos..

[@vietlee4290]

Next time I going to joke and say that it says "potato" they will be so shocked.

[@mrdavidtran]

OMG I didn't know you watched off the Great Wall, I see you on every JK video!

[@keyarca]

wow you are everywhere

[@r415h1]

Your on every channel I watch! Geez! Haha

[@r415h1]

+Loukas DeVoe you're

[@jea-seo1333]

+Viet Lee the next time someone shows off their chinese character tattoo, I'm going with potato in your honor

[@himtraldi]

"I don't eat meat, but I still bite" is a saying I've heard before. It is more like if you point and tease me, I'll bite your finger. So ind the end it means something like; I'm kind, but don't fuck with me!

[@bob0s062]

New Age Girl by Deadeyed Dick has a line; "She don't eat meat but she sure likes the bone" reminds me of that tat.

[@outandaboutafterthestorm]

Yeah, but it just sounds off in Chinese.

[@acv2045]

Time to show this to all my friends with chinese tattoos (insert evil laugh)

[@AnnaWebb37]

Which is why you fuckin study the language before you get a tattoo...

[@sheraserena3569]

Didnt you guys already make this video? I feel like I watched this already.

[@ivanlimzg]

Yeah, I remember that one

[@LeizhiLi]

+Shera Casseus the have done a similair video also talking about fail tattoo's but this is a other one. i believe you still can go on thier channel and typ in tattoo and you can see it is a other video. i think theyjust love fail vide's haha. But if you understand chinese this video is even funnier!!

[@Unsalted375]

+Shera Casseus Yeah me too

[@craig8406]

Don't be racist those are different guys

[@mszindependentx3]

I have one that says libra. Everyone at the tattoo shop was making fun of me, that it might mean something else. But every time I go to a nail shop, the nail ladies are all like "ooooooo your birthday October ?? Your sign libra " I was so relieved.

[@ebonylambily1732]

I'm from Hong Kong ,and I'm laughing so hard when I saw the tattoos!

[@Itsmeeman1]

I had mine written on paper by a Chinese woman, then I went to another city and asked another Chinese person to read it to me before I got it done. This is the best way I can think of to make sure your Chinese writing is accurately translated.

[@MsKatiekittykat]

My friend wanted 白富美 (pale rich and beautiful) but they used 夫 (man) instead of 富

[@leongchau2268]

Bwahahahahah

[@leongchau2268]

白富美means white rich beautiful woman(perfect woman).Chinese people like being white and it doesn't mean white people here.Usually 高富帅 is used to describe a man who is tall rich and handsome(perfect man)

[@Entiox]

It's funny that you mention the food item tattoos. A friend of mine had the Chinese characters for "Kung Pao chicken extra spicy no vegetables" tattooed on his calf. The wait staff in restaurants always got a good laugh out of it when he pulled up his pants leg and pointed to the tattoo when they asked what he wanted to order, and he always got exactly what he wanted. Unfortunately that was the leg he lost in a motorcycle accident.

[@Depths17]

if I'm gonna get a Chinese tattoo I would definitely need the approval from a native first.

[@Ayumi-km4xi]

You have me 🙋 well if you want a japanese one, I'm here too 🙋 (im japanese chinese)

[@creamsickli]

Ask my mom or my grandma cuz I can't read Chinese but my parents can

[@stitch8589]

Canto here

[@nemonade_]

I totally lost it at ''Coffin dude'' plus 5:22 is GOLD :')

[@danidadog6]

guys, you're recycling old content

[@shillinhite3911]

XD Coffin Dude! That's awesome.

[@wilchami]

If you read 所狗 from right to left (traditional style), it would mean dog house, which could be vaguely gangsta-ish. Also, the guy with 讯笨 (xun ben) was probably looking for 讯愤 (xun fen), but got the pinyin wrong.

[@TheVinterKrieg]

I'll be studying english and korean at university soon and when I'm bored I like to read korean tattoos on the internet to see if they are actually correct and oh boy I'm having the time of my life! Also I live in a european country and we have a lot of people who have misspelled english tattoos too and it's just beautiful!! But yes please do the reversed video on chinese (or asian in general) people having english tattoos!

[@sincurse7108]

Vinter lol I do the same thing.

[@jadeliu4992]

The golden pig might not be a mistake. I'm not aware of the nitty gritty details, but basically every 5 years of the pig (so every 60 years total), there's the year of the golden pig that is lucky or something good. So maybe that person is born in the year of the golden pig, or maybe he's born in the year of the pig and just wanted the golden there for the sake of it. The fact that its upside down could be justified with the same reasoning that people post 福 upside down on their doors during lunar New Year.

[@SeaSon7ary]

The tradition of putting 福(fortune, blessing) upside down is because that can be explained as 福倒(upside down) and 倒 has the same pronunciation with 到(come, reach, arrive). Not any words can be written upside down. Putting 猪 upside down doesn't really have a meaning.

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

I'm laughing at Xun Ben and Jin Zhu for 5 minutes xD

[@mylittleponyrulz]

I'd love to see another video of tattoo failures.

[@Triumvirate888]

Is it possible that some of these characters are Japanese instead of Chinese? I know that they share a lot of characters, but the meanings are different sometimes.

[@Animemus]

All kanji are Chinese characters.

[@Triumvirate888]

Animemus Right, I understand that they are the same characters as in Chinese. But the same characters might not have the same MEANING in Chinese as they do in Japanese.

[@iluvpie143]

20-30% of kanji used have different meanings in Japanese and Chinese.

[@Fantic1980]

Jake Zingeser I find this absolutely fascinating! Asian languages (sorry for being such a stereotypical English guy) are just so complex and beautiful.

[@LightInGate]

Even as a Japanese speaker, these tattoos still make no sense to me.

[@MihaiKrieger]

I will purposefully tatoo 薄荷冰淇淋 on my body and I will not be sorrz for it :D

[@unctheduc]

Number 7 is branding scarification chicken noodle soup lol

[@MunchJinkies]

I like the "Double Chen" version of this video better. Either way, keep it up:)

[@matildawong5734]

When I was in Spain I saw a guy with the words '秘密死' (secret death/secretly die?) tattooed on his arm. To this day I still have no idea what he was thinking when he got it.

[@BunnyFett]

I lost it at "bathroom dog."

[@joemart6887]

moreeee, part 2 plzzzz and tweet these videos! chinese is awesome!

[@SirAgravaine]

Maybe coffin dude is a mortician? I knew a girl with a Chinese character tattoo on her ankle; she got it with her friends and said it meant friendship. I'm not Chinese and I don't speak Chinese, but I had studied Japanese and knew the characters for friendship and it was not the character for friend.

[@angelinak6323]

i saw a guy in italy who had a tattoo on his neck saying " stomachache medicine" and i was just wondering why someone would tattoo this 😂

[@robaldridge6505]

one of my sons friends (U.S. Navy) has 'Free Soup' in chinese on his chest..... LOL

[@robcluck7469]

Although I am an 'egg,' my Mandarin is very weak. However, this topic has always facinated me. Westerners that have no clue about the langiuage trusting a tattoo 'artist' with their skin artwork. The biggest error I have seen is the spacing (either vertical or horizontal). The recent one I have seen is what was suppose to be 'loyal' (忠), but the spacing vertically was too much, so the person in fact had the tattoo saying (中心) meaning center.... Center of what? Another was what the receiver thought was friend (朋), but the horizontal spacing was too much, which resulted in 月月, which translates to 'month by month.' If your getting a tattoo of a Chinese charate, have them draw the character and show it to someone from China or Taiwan. If they giggle or laugh, DO NOT get the tattoo from that tattoo 'artist.'

[@lawltalents]

im soo up for seeing chinese with fail english tattoos tho and a part two would be awesome to this

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Maybe he's an undertaker, and damn proud of it.

[@xrubyxlightx]

This made me LOL hahaha. (PS Dan is pretty cute)

[@katiekawaii]

Yes do that part two please!!

[@christosvoskresye]

I imagine that fairly often the tattoo is not a Chinese character for anything, but only looks Chinese to someone who does not read Chinese.

[@laweda1218]

i think the guy that had the tatto gold pig tatto maybe he was trying to the the Chinese zodiac

[@MadyLeslie]

I think one thing to remember is that many characters in Japanese Kanji are taken from Chinese but have completely different meanings. So reading them as kun a instead of the on ( or ong) will give them totally different readings as well.

[@FriendChicken]

Coffin Dude. HAHAHA

[@marissaacton1289]

YES this video is great, ive always wondered about this topic.

[@sheraserena3569]

Lol this is so sad for those people. I wonder if they can get a refund

[@ianjohnson2128]

dude tating the food as a way to order semi genius except a piece of paper or note pad would work well too lol

[@semprence86]

Yes more tattoo fails please.and the English tattoo fails too.i love your videos,your awesome Dan and mike

[@Oanytta17]

Great video...Loved it...I learned characters and I do have to say I am laughing really hard when I read such things :))

[@shayni99]

If you look at some of the tattoos drawn on Justin Timberlake for his role in 'Alpha Dog' you will see one of them is the chinese characters for 'ice-skating'. I thought that was hilarious, this supposedly big, tough gangsta type dude, with 'Yay, ice-skating!' tattooed on him

[@wonderfulmockingbird4660]

奇is okay for tattoo since it can mean Wonderful or Distinguished, such as 神奇，奇迹，奇鸟形状录. Even one popular Chinese video site named 爱奇异

[@SeaSon7ary]

That should be 爱奇艺 though...

[@thefruitofherlips]

so cool listening to you speak the symbols

[@espinacas1979]

part two! part two!

[@feelthethrillnow]

isn't this a reupload? chicken noodle soup. yep, it is. anyway, love your videos,

[@lone6718]

Yes

[@KE4VVF]

Funny!! Part Two Please.

[@nparioctiescutm]

new favorite you tubers!!!!

[@Kt-cn2rq]

my hubby got a tattoo of a drunk troll with a beer will that work lol

[@wilsonmlin]

#3. maybe "coffin guy" wanted "undertaker"? my theory for #5 is that "golden pigs are here"?

[@trungly1322]

i once typed 'bathroom' to my mum instead of goodbye

[@woolenhat5796]

I should probably get mine checked😂

[@the_s0lar_system]

I find it so cool that since I'm taking Japanese, I can recognize some of the characters that have the same meaning even if it's not pronounced the same (I know it's because Japan used the Chinese character system).

[@Kairos_Akuma]

Good thing I have chinese Bosses..... chinese Tatoo here i come xD

[@Crux161]

Even in Japanese the kanji say essentially the same thing.. Just a thought because it looked like it was on a cherry blossom? "Big yes" lol

[@closetshota_fujoshivanilla]

xie xie for making this vids... this made me laugh so freaking hard and it's already 1:30am here that i almost woken up the others here who are sleeping xD I've studied in a chinese school when i was younger from elementary to 3rd year high school...the sad thing is i can only write it with ink and brush but i dont know how to translate nor read Chinese characters anymore x.x

[@InnannasRainbow]

Tattoo Rule #1: Do NOT get a tattoo if you are not absolutely certain what it says.Tattoo Rule #2: Make sure it is spelled correctly.Tattoo Rule #3: Do not assume your tattooist knows what s/he is doing. Some cannot spell, some cannot draw, some have no freaking idea what they are doing. If the tattoo is cheap, it probably isn't worth it.

[@PinkLlamaGrl]

Deja vu! Didn't you do this same topic on Double Chen Show?

[@leemcgann6470]

Ok so can we send you the idea we want to have tattooed and have you translate???? Huh? Great idea!

[@lyanalkhudairy5195]

If the like the dish so much, you can just write it down on a piece of paper and show it to them!

[@user-xj2sm3xd5l]

More interesting video than I thought tbh

[@rpgoo6926]

I worked with a chinese girl in a salon in London and one day on the tube she pointed out a tattoo a girl had which said something like "cabbage soup".😐

[@jaysato]

I had a coworker named tim and had chinese characters which he said it says T I M but putting the three random characters together it read as Unreliable delivery service

[@carpetsharktagg]

Chad Michael Murray's character on One Tree Hill had Chinese tattoo on his shoulder, but it was 有, not 友 as I assume was the intention.

[@leoshadow203]

The guy that did gold pig was probably doing his Chinese zodiac

[@gmeeks]

I saw a guy once with 女人tatooed on the back of his neck

[@johnallardyce4164]

female person = lol

[@maggot6320]

i once saw a guy with 違 on his left calf and 夢 on his right calf... "different dream?" i don't really know what he was going for lol

[@SeaSon7ary]

If you turn the left character into 遺 the it becomes 夢遺 and that means wet dream...

[@mysticblueschannel8356]

Loved it I'd love to see more!

[@vancemccarthy2554]

or, the first one, Dog Kennel. The third one, Undertaker. Furious in this english sense means stretching your luck, which is stupid.

[@umbrieliya7867]

Number 6 made me laugh so much....idk

[@KarlAndArma4ever]

This is why I will never get a real tattoo in any foreign language except in Kreeth, and that's only because I completely made that language up. Like created the entire alphabet and a few punctuation marks. Though a few letters look somewhat Japanese, so I'll have to be careful what word I choose...if I decide to go with that kind of tattoo to begin with.

[@goustune]

part 2 !

[@Joywish72]

You guys are so funny

[@johnrigler8858]

I'm thinking about getting a tattoo! What's Chinese for DRY CLEAN ONLY ?

[@pamelamilner8294]

Or, more likley "Gullinbursti (meaning "Gold Mane or Golden Bristles") is a boar in Norse mythology. Golden Boar

[@sungjin-woo391]

Some of these tattoos were in a Japanese people react to westerners with Kanji tattoos, and some of the meanings were the same, does that mean Japanese and Chinese have some words that have the same symbols and are read the same?

[@SillyLilly2208]

I wanna get my Chinese zodiac sign, tiger 虎 tattooed but since I'm learning Korean, I'm more into the idea of getting something in Korean 😅💞

[@SillyLilly2208]

SkinnyMinnieHippo hey hey fellow army 😍👏🏼🎉

[@goustune]

+Oli Pop Well koreans also use chinese characters (한자), so it's okay :)

[@DoomVideoVault]

By all means do so for part two! :)

[@justbeingreal5839]

Did you guys remake this video? I saw the other one with the same tattoos.

[@maru-df2bq]

Wow... As Japanese they've been pretty unfortunate. The one really got me was 無料instead of 自由 because...you know. Anyways, thank you for educating videos. I'm lucky to be able to understand kanji.

[@LouiseRichert]

Hahah this so funny xD. I had a Chinese boyfriend once. One day we met my friend in the mall and he showed up hes new tattoo and said that it was supposed to say his namn "Mark" but my ex started laughing and told him that it didn't say his namn at all. He said that it was some sort of mening that didn't make any since at all. 4 months after I saw on Facebook that he had done a coverup on his old tattoo. Haha I felt so bad for him xD

[@ellaalbarracin233]

Someone received the Chinese word for Gout written on their back

[@maymay1889]

I've seen those Chinese failed tattoos before lol. I also saw this boy with a Chinese tattoo and it just made me laugh, he was about 14 ( too young for a tattoo) , his Chinese tattoo was 龙的精神, I get his intentions but I just had to laugh.

[@leongchau2268]

The spirit of dragon.Good!!!

[@ThePelaezFamily]

do more it's funny

[@otakusteffy]

I need a second part! Actually my cousin has a tattoo in "japanese" (I can speak it) and it was supposed to say "Alan" the name of her boyfriend but it says "fuwafuwa" poor girl lol

[@AlbinoRaccoon97]

+Steffy Fluffy? lmao How did the translation get lost from アラン　to　フワフワ？

[@AlbinoRaccoon97]

+Steffy Fluffy? lmao How did the translation get lost from アラン　to　フワフワ？

[@otakusteffy]

Right!? haha

[@yunxihe6542]

There is a funny one. 从心(means follow your heart) but some people put it together as(怂) means coward ..

[@MrLinguist88]

Ehm....deja-vu...? I have seen this video like half a year ago...

[@XDunknownXD]

does anyone know any other channels that talk about different cultures?

[@pennythatcher3817]

While I'm watching I'm wondering if there are Chinese people who get stupid English words. If you answer this on your video I apologize. I really appreciate your videos. You've taught me a lot.🐯🐇

[@rbstorm6030]

Didn’t you do these same tattoos before?

[@grantsillimanjr.6544]

could you do like best chinese tattoos to get?

[@zihaozhang3318]

+Grant Silliman, Jr. if you are trying to get a Chinese tattoos, try some one-character word like, 勇(brave), 壮(strong), 龙(dragon). or maybe get 拆 and put circle around that word.(i'm trolling, dont do that)

[@grantsillimanjr.6544]

lol I'll definitely do that. ;)

[@lingkong3685]

+William Z use traditional chinese, dragon 龍

[@paulzhang1992]

+Ling Kong that's more bad ass

[@biggreentruck4907]

Yep. This is precisely why I do not have Asian words tattooed on my body. Also, I own NOTHING with Asian characters written on it. My luck, I'd end up trying to get "courage" or "honor ", but have "fecal sniffer" or "swine humper", instead. Screw that. No thanks.

[@TheMoondog15]

I work with a guy who has the Chinese character Death tattoo on his neck. When I asked him what it meant a he said honor.