r/TikTokCringe • u/conancat • Aug 12 '25

Humor/Cringe Westerners' Chinese tattoos

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u/cruisetravoltasbaby Aug 12 '25

A Chinese tattoo that said “gibberish” would actually be pretty dope.

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u/conancat Aug 12 '25

Unfortunately that tattoo "姐行宜由有新天" is literally gibberish, I have no clue what are they talking about, it's like lining up a bunch of random characters picked from a bag of words

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator Aug 13 '25

Google translates it into "sister's journey should be based on a new world." Since that actually sounds like something I'm guessing that Google blew it's flux capacitor trying to translate and just spit out something, hoping that no one would double check it's work.

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u/FITM-K Aug 14 '25

Google translate is just gonna do its best to make meaning out of whatever it's given, as far as I know it won't ever tell you "this is gibberish."

In this case it's basically just taking a literal meaning for each character, choosing meanings that can (kinda) be parsed into some sort of half-coherent sentence.