Playbooks
An App to Check Your Chinese Tattoo? Read This First
Before you ink a Chinese tattoo, can an app verify the translation and characters? Not safely on its own. Here is how to actually check it before it is permanent.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Playbooks
Verifying a Chinese Tattoo: Why AI Isn't Enough
An AI scan can miss a wrong character, a mirrored stroke, or a clumsy mistranslation, the classic bad-tattoo traps. The reliable check is a fluent native reader, not an app. Here is how to verify it.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Essays
Which Chinese Script Looks Best for a Tattoo?
Game-inspired Chinese tattoos look great, until the character is wrong. Here is which script styles suit ink, and the verification you must do before you commit.
Lawrence Arya··5 min