Monday, October 22, 2007

Chinese Tattoos in the News

http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.1767493.0.mums_not_the_word_on_tattoo.php

Dorset Echo [UK]
17 Oct 2007

Mum's not the word on tattoo

By Juliette Astrup

A Poole woman who thought she had "Mum" tattooed in Chinese symbols on her back has spoken of her shock at being told it actually read "Friend Come Hell." Mum-of-one Charlene Williams, of Canford Heath, had the tattoo done on her lower back four years ago. [...]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/10/19/tatt-s-not-nice-dear-89520-19975734/

The Mirror [UK]
19 October 2007

Girl's 'evil' Chinese tattoo

A teenager who had "mum" tattooed on her back in Chinese letters was horrified to find it really said: "Friend from hell." [...]

[See the Dorset Echo for a photograph of her tattoo. Will future versions of this report describe it as saying "Fiend from hell"?]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article369654.ece

The Sun [UK]
22 October 2007

Tatt's ink-redibly unfunny

By JAMIE PYATT

PROUD Vince Mattingley showed off his Chinese writing tattoo spelling his name for 26 years – until someone pointed out if actually spelt COCA-COLA. [...]

http://www.hanzismatter.com/2007/10/tatts-ink-redibly-unfunny.html

Hanzi Smatter
25 October 2007

Tatt's ink-redibly unfunny

By Tian

[In his blog "dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture," Tian reprints the Sun article and states that the two characters mean "crooked official."]

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