kame3 Wrote:On a side note, I am curious if there are any Kanji that would be ok for a tattoo, but have a very awkward Hanzi meaning (or the other way around)?I once saw an overweight woman with 馬 on her arm. I can only guess it's part of the Chinese calendar or something, but I still had to laugh. Others I've seen are 暴力団, 悪霊 and 危.
All of them looked like they were written by beginner Japanese students. I've never seen one that looked good, even if you ignore the meaningless nonsense and "check out my coolness" aspects. But then why would you expect some random white guy with a tattoo gun to be able to write beautiful Japanese characters?