This is my favourite. 痔 means haemorrhoid. Presumably it was meant to say 侍, samurai.

I mean we can probably all visualize the person who had that tattoo and "foreign pervert" probably fits them perfectly.

To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing

Where I live, we get a number of used vehicles imported from Japan, and for a while it was trendy to have English slogans on vehicles.

They frequently made little sense, I imagine our ones look the same to them.

Wasn't a tattoo, but a motorcycle decal. This dude had a Kawasaki crotch rocket with five kanji characters on it. Posted it to a forum, and this weeb says "lol where'd you get that?" dude answers all defensively "From the mall, why?" Weeb says "It says pig bird pig lizard dog." "No dude, it says N-I-N-J-A." He thought kanji characters translated directly to the latin alphabet.

Not really related, but a couple of years ago in my home country, a Western bloke was actually pictured on the internet wearing a shirt that said something like "白人很笨" (white people are stupid).

There's a great website documenting this. I'm surprised no one has linked to it.

https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/

Example:

Ariana Grande's new tattoo, 七輪.

She wanted it to promote and celebrate her latest single, 7 Rings.

Instead it is referencing to a type of Japanese charcoal cooking grill.

I have a friend that has Thai writing tattooed on his leg that translates to "I love chicken soup."

I think when he was drunk he went into a tattoo parlor thinking it was a restaurant.

I've seen a few Sanskrit ones. Nothing drastic in real life, thankfully. I find the Chinese ones much more hilarious.

Had a friend in college legit get ancient Chinese calligraphy. Absolutely beautiful. But my international center buddy told me separately it just meant window. It was supposed to be this heavenly view or some such thing. No. It was window.

How about ‘never get a tattoo’. Full stop.

Why not? I got Vete a la Mierda tattooed on my arm when I was young and still learning Spanish. Occasionally, I've had the great opportunity to pull my sleeve up.

I saw a pic that supposedly said "egg fried rice". I wouldn't even be mad

Hentai Gaijin

A friend of mine wanted a tattoo in french, she speaks it but not fluently, I found a quote for her that she loved, she transcribed it to paper to bring it to the tattoo artist... I think she transcribed it from memory because she made a mistake in the text and I never had the heart to tell her (small word missing or something like that)... And it's a very long quote in a straight line on her vertebral column, so it's not easy to hide if she wears something more revealing...

When I was a kid I remember a clothing store getting in trouble because it was selling underpants with an artistic Arabic lettering design. They hadn't checked what it said, but it turned out to say "There is no god but God and Mohammed is his prophet." Having this on underpants didn't please anyone.

Obligatory do not go to a tattoo parlor and ask them to tattoo something derogatory in their native language as a joke. At worst you'll severely offend them and at best they'll be extremely reluctant to do it because it could get them in serious trouble and thrash their reputation. I promise you it's nowhere near as funny as the internet would have you believe and it won't be taken well by a vast majority of tattoo artists.

How many Chinese people and places have mistranslated a word into English as "fuck?" I can't remember which word it is, some kind of food. So ya'know, glass houses and all that.

1 man with menstruation tattooed on his neck