Chinese Tattoos

Chinese tattoos along with Asian tattoos in general offer a wide variety of spectacular artwork consisting of an array of objects, creatures and symbols, including such things as the yin and yang, dragons, big cats and fish.

But perhaps the most sought after Chinese tattoos are the ancient symbols, which are also referred to as characters, signs and the Chinese alphabet. Believe it or not there are actually more than 100,000 Chinese symbols all together, and some of the most popular designs represent love, strength, happiness, fate and eternity.

Checkout this tattoo picture gallery and discover some ideas for a Chinese design.

Chinese tattoos are seen on all areas of the body, including the back, chest and ankle.

Chinese symbols are often small designs, however the Chinese inspired animal tattoos are commonly large works of art with many colors involved.

Other popular Chinese symbol tattoo meanings include, dream, integrity, creativity, determination and kindness.

Eagle Tattoo

American Eagle Tattoo to cover a poorly done and totally backward Eagle Globe and Anchor Tattoo. A type of tattoo I take a lot of pride in doing well. So beware on where and who tattoos you, not all tattoo mistakes can be easily covered up. I will have a before picture of the covered tattoo soon.

Eagle tattoos

Eagle tattoos

Eagle tattoos

Eagle tattoos

Eagle tattoos

Eagle tattoos

Eagle tattoos

Chinese Tattoos

For those wishing to embellish their tattoo their many smaller themes designs they can easily accompany Chinese Japanese writing a script. For example, men will getting Tiger, lion, or dragon to accompany their design. Women tend to opt for a more delicate designs such as the cherry blossom, yin yang symbol, or a koi fish design.

There are a wide variety of very beautiful tattoo designs throughout Asian cultures. Anyone considering getting a Chinese or Japanese tattoo would be well advised to check their overall design especially the writing with a native speaker of the language. Their many incidents where a person is purchased a flash tattoo at a local tattoo shop thinking that it meant one thing later find out that that's a totally different.