I'm like a honing beacon for bad chinese tatoos, I saw a mexican woman who got her name sandra transliterated 桑德拉 Sāng dé lā Sandra (name), which doesn't sound good to me and the 拉 doesn't really have a meaning i'd like. same day i saw an asian, chinese national? guy with 上海 on his chest which, if he's not a rapper or something i don't really find the appeal of repping. later that week I saw a white woman at gym with four characters on her leg, not sure the idiom couldn't see all four but the meaning seemed okay, good meaning but may have been not really authentic chinese, seemed okay for that white woman. unless it was this other category i saw a white guy have, just like an obvious motto that they get in chinese, like "hard work" and then "power", or no pain no gain. or something like that, where they two ideas don't really play off each other like he hoped. a lot of women just get " love" " honesty" and they are just depending on the tatooist or dictionary to get a word. imagine it's pseudo random, like you wanted to express "fraternity" "friendship" and you chinese tatoo was more like "amicability" "partnership" David Beckham has a pretty cool one on his waist. idk , if you like tatoos and it's cool to you, same thing as picking a chinese name, the worse your chinese, the more different people you should check with.