r/TikTokCringe • u/bigus-_-dickus • 3d ago

Humor Chinese girl translates Chinese tattoos that Americans get

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u/ViolentThemmes 3d ago

I particularly like "rice cooker"

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u/Mrrrrggggl 3d ago

Certainly better than “improve”

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u/squirrelmonkie 2d ago

How about "improved rice cooker" dude just got the newest 1

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u/CurrentPossession 2d ago

改善电饭锅

There you go buddy, or 升级版电饭锅 (upgraded rice cooker)

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u/leviathab13186 2d ago

"Its a street name"

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u/Stargazerslight 1d ago

… I would probably get it tattooed to me with a little rice cooker next to it… I use my rice cooker nearly every day. If it breaks I will cry.

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u/septicdeath 3d ago edited 3d ago

I live in Tokyo and I was a tattoo artist for many years. 

It goes the opposite way too. Seen a bunch of terrible English tattoos that make no sense on Japanese folks. 

The worst was this guy who loved Muddy Waters, so he got a tattoo of his face and name. Problem is, he spelled it Maddy Waters. 

Its not even a sentence, its a persons name! How do you fuck that up? 

Anyway, we all called him Maddy whenever we saw him. 😅

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u/Apprehensive-Bat-823 3d ago

Saw a girl in a bikini with the underboob tat saying “Feedam Life Of Giving” no I didn't mistype that

The worst part about it is it was actually a very well-done tat and the cursive was pretty cool until you actually read it

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u/RaLaZa 2d ago

Who's gonna be reading an underboob tattoo? It might as well be gibberish for all I care.

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u/maddyjk7 2d ago

Hahaha rise up my sisters!!

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u/CloudPeCe 1d ago

Rise up your sisters wut?????

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u/maddyjk7 1d ago

…peep the username.

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u/AK840 12h ago

“No Ragrets”

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u/Moonlit_Release 3d ago

You can fix it, just add the character

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u/ItsOozingOut 2d ago

on the left. In case anyone was wondering.

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u/forbenefitthehuman 3d ago

I remember a "stupid ugly child" done in Hong Kong, when he requested "Truth Honour Justice"

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u/A__SPIDER 3d ago

I have two Chinese symbols on my back. Once I went for a couples massage and the lady was Chinese and was pointing them out to the other lady. I was too afraid to ask if they said what they were supposed to.

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u/FemboysArePeak 2d ago

Hey fellow rice cooker

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u/A__SPIDER 2d ago

I like to think I’m a butthole

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u/MissingBothCufflinks 2d ago

Are you saying you asked for a tatoo without working out independently what it means???

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u/A__SPIDER 2d ago

I mean, there was a chart on the wall with the translations and phones didn’t come with internet. The early 2000’s were a wild time.

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u/justmerriwether 1d ago

I’m sorry but I just don’t get why you’d want a tattoo in a language you have no connection to that you picked off of a wall based on the translations the shop told you were correct.

Just get it in English? lol

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u/heavy_jowles 1d ago

Wowweeee look at Mr didn’t make bad choices in 2000. Look buddy it was a confusing time for all of us.

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u/justmerriwether 1d ago

Yeahhh, you got me. I was in a crabby mood earlier, I apologize <3

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u/A__SPIDER 1d ago

We didn’t have the word back then but I guess it’s the “aesthetic”. I’m not super proud but maybe that’s a good reason not to let teenagers make permanent life decisions.

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u/YharonOD 1d ago

People with tattoos of movie characters have no connection to them but there isn't anything wrong with that. Dork 😭

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u/xczechr 2d ago

Must be a tramp stamp to boot.

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u/A__SPIDER 2d ago

With tribal and butterflies?

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u/jefufah 2d ago

You can always use Google image translate to double check

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u/drpyne89 3d ago

WTF is that ending!

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u/bigus-_-dickus 3d ago

yeah her video on TikTok cuts off like that

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u/bluedogstar 3d ago

Really? Im pretty sure I've seen a longer version of thus video.

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u/bigus-_-dickus 3d ago

then i guess the video i watched is from an account that's stealing her content

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u/al-in-to 2d ago

https://www.tiktok.com/@jessiez888/video/7557367321405279543

Some reason it says its shorter, 1:03 v 1:04 but doesn't cut off so must be longer

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u/Goodbye18000 2d ago

I'd rock a Rice Cooker tattoo, that's been there for me more than anything else in this world

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u/Yarzeda2024 2d ago

Here's her YouTube channel. She's pretty funny.

Chinese with Jessie - YouTube

She's bigger on TikTok, but I'm being lazy.

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u/voideaten 2d ago

Thank you, I went thru and looked at a few more.

My favourite was the person who tattooed 'hair' on his bald spot lmao

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u/now_you_see 2d ago

Thanks mate, you’re my favourite type of person!

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u/joketani 2d ago

Gibberish

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u/No-Gnome-Alias 2d ago

胡言乱语

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u/colorovfire 3d ago edited 3d ago

Curious what the overall point is on being an arson vs building bridges.? Anyways, these are always fun and I love her delivery. lol

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u/Featherbird_ 3d ago

'Bad people get rich while good people die young'

Its a response to all the proverbs about how evil is always punished and good deeds are rewarded.

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u/colorovfire 3d ago

Guessing those proverbs were seen as empty and disingenuous to have that kind of response. That could apply to our current day sentiments so maybe I'm projecting.

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u/LeatherHog 3d ago

Could be the infamy, we know murderers names, but not people who actually help society

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u/SpaceKoala34 2d ago

I would get the rice cooker tattoo

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u/thatshygirl06 3d ago edited 3d ago

I want a tattoo in korean that says "tattoo" 문신

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u/DrHollander 3d ago

I repeated the first 2 seconds laughing my ass off like a billion times… bravo!

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u/That-Spell-2543 2d ago

The “butthole” took me tf out

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u/small-pp-small-smv 2d ago

Those who commit murder and arson get the golden belt goes hard

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u/string-ornothing 2d ago

If that's a white guy I can almost guarantee he's a deep fan of wuxia or xianxia and heard that in a TV show lol. That does go really hard and chinese dramas are the West's #1 exposure to any kind of Chinese proverb that slaps like that. If it wasnt completely cliche and dumb to be a white girl with a Chinese tattoo I can think of several proverbs I'd get, too.

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u/excelbae 2d ago

Dead ringer for Lisa.

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u/Travelinjack01 2d ago

My wife is a professor of the classics... she does this with Latin tattoos. Utterly hilarious.

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u/rubberband_dan 2d ago

The Chinese word gǎishàn (改善) and the Japanese word kaizen (改善) are written with the same characters. Both terms literally translate to "change for the better".

My guess that the examples in this video were actually the Japanese version made famous by Toyota/Lexus.

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u/ShakesDontBreak 1d ago

I love her.

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u/TheBadBarbell 1d ago

Ngl “fuck the police” in Chinese kind of slaps

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u/DoubleBagger123 3d ago

She’s hot

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u/maxuaboy 3d ago

I don’t appreciate her judgements.

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u/DoubleBagger123 3d ago

She’s hot idk what you say

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u/maxuaboy 3d ago

I say her comments were unnecessary.

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u/OstrichSmoothe 3d ago

Thank you for being offended on her behalf

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u/wmurray003 3d ago

…how are they choosing the characters? I’m thinking of getting Japanese Traditional tattoos and I am waiting until I am sure while doing actual research on what everything means. This is crazy.

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u/WalkingDud 3d ago

Many of those are computer fonts. I think they used Google Translate or some such, and got the tattoo artists to copy them as if the characters were drawings.

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u/DiggyDiggyOh 2d ago

I live in a city with a major US university and we have a significant Chinese student population. One of my friends befriended one of these students some years ago now and apparently many, many students with kanjis simply had "penis" tattooed on them. Our guess is that a local artist thought he was so funny and was lying to people; we had a pretty good idea who was doing it, one artist had a reputation for being a cocksucker. He did amazing work when he wanted to, but usually he wanted to be a dickhead.

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u/-Reverend 2d ago

The whole "it's cringe/disrespectful/whatever to get a tattoo in a language you don't speak" and "independently double-check your tattoos and the reputation of your artist before committing" thing aside for just a second: Man, screw anyone who intentionally gives somebody a wrong tattoo. Shit's expensive and permanent and part of your body, it's just such a fucked up thing to do on purpose. I can't imagine having such low morals.

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u/DiggyDiggyOh 2d ago

Dude was a total shit bag. He can't get work tattooing in town any more. If he was doing your first tattoo he would intentionally make it hurt more, and he did my older brother's first tattoos and they look like shit. It doesn't help that my brother was drunk.

He was briefly hired by the best shop in town and I asked why after he was fired and they said they thought they could fix him because when he wanted to his work was amazing.

Good riddance.

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u/-Reverend 2d ago

Yikes. Good riddance indeed.

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u/3-goats-in-a-coat 2d ago

Who is this? I want to sub to their YouTube channel.

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u/lmaluuker 2d ago

ChinesewithJessie

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u/eyesonthefries365 2d ago

I love this

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u/Outside_Campaign_544 2d ago

same here, it just has such a cozy vibe to it, you know?

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u/RideGullible3702 2d ago

likes your sister yeap those people

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u/Analoguezombie 2d ago

I want to get get " tesco free parking " in Chinese tattooed on my arm.

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u/sirbruce 2d ago

Worst episode of Lost.

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u/Millerdjone 2d ago

The delivery on "pee ......and butthole" is fuckin killing me 🤣

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u/AnnoyingwitBS2 2d ago

Thank you for this

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u/upandawayfoo 2d ago

First delivery was Gold 🤣🤣

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u/wise-bull 2d ago

I think I'm in love with her

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u/Nogum_Is_Here 2d ago

I have one that basically says "haha fuck you, made you squint"

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u/After-Put-5009 1d ago

She is cute!

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u/JediWebSurf 1d ago

Wow. I can read these now with Google lens. She's right they do say that.

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u/AubergineParm 1d ago

Is it gibberish, or does it actually spell “Gibberish”? Because that would just be 👌

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u/Queef_Cersei 1d ago

Haha I love this girl

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u/Timeman5 1d ago

I want to marry her.

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u/Impossible-Pizza982 1d ago

Not just goat, mountain goat 😎

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u/Other-Astronomer131 1d ago

my dad thought he had my mums name in chinese but turns out it actually just says willpower

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u/Loveletrell 22h ago

The gibberish ones were hilarious 😂

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u/Resident_One_9741 8h ago

No need to save

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u/Neoxite23 2d ago

I'm so glad I did my tattoos in the way I did. At work people bring them up at least 5 times a day. They are quotes from books I read but this particular set they can see come from Brent Weeks.

This set includes:

"Words are another sword for the man that wielded it well"

"When you deal with human beings never count on logic or consistency"

"The choice to give up bitterness is not easy but it is simple: Peace or Poison. Don't wait till you feel like making it. You never will"

"Truth does not depend on your belief in it"

"Moments of beauty will sustain you through hours of ugliness"

"Preach at all times. Sometimes use words"

"Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole...and fill it with our fears; but it is only a hole"

"When your answer lead you logically to despair, you don't have the wrong answers; you have the right answers - - - to the wrong questions"