Chinese Character Tattoos---Chinese Tattoo Artist Design Your Chinese Character Tattoos

Chinese character tattoos or kanji tattoos are tattoos consisting of Chinese character (kanji).

When people want to use Chinese symbols for tattoos, they often feel confused when an English word is represented with more than one symbol in Chinese. They wonder whether they have to choose one of the two or have to apply them together. In other words, the question is whether these two Chinese symbols can be separated.

The answer is depends, it depends on the English word to be Translated into Chinese. For example, the English word "beauty" can be written in Chinese with a single Chinese character. But some other words, such as "Nirvana" have two separate Chinese characters in them and these cannot be separated without altering or truncating the meaning.

 

This is somewhat similar to English words such as "breakfast" which actually consist of the words "break" and "fast" but should always be read together to have the meaning of "breakfast."

 

At the same time, each Chinese character or symbol has its own meaning. For instance, the word for "karma" is made up of the characters meaning "cause" and "result." Now if you take the two parts apart, you will end up with either cause or causation but not karma. Karma is the combination of the two.

 

There are over 80,000 Chinese characters, but most of them are seldom used today.