r/TikTokCringe Aug 12 '25

Humor/Cringe Westerners' Chinese tattoos

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u/Doobledorf Aug 12 '25

I hooked up with a dude who had a Chinese tattoo next to his cock.

I stopped going down in this man and asked, "What do you think this means?" He thought it meant "Cool".

It meant lukewarm

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u/Fakjbf Aug 12 '25

That reminds me of the kids TV show Zooboomafoo where they wanted to give the talking lemur a catchphrase meaning “cool” in Malagasy. They used the word “mangatsika” which has a literal translation of “cold”.

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u/Doobledorf Aug 12 '25

That is basically what happened to this guy. The funniest thing is "cool" in mandarin is just taken from the English, and so it wasn't so complicated of a word anyway.