Chinese character tattoo ideas

35 photos and flash · 46% Lettering, 9% Botanical · Back most common

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Black and grey design of a compass rose with overlapping riveted metal rings and a single Chinese character at its centre.
Riveted compass rose with kanji centre
Sheet of twelve dark red Chinese character designs on white, each labelled in English with words such as Music, Peace, Mother and Father.
Chinese character tattoo flash sheet
Black and white flash sheet of twenty-four Chinese characters in brush script, each labelled in English with its meaning, such as joy, courage and wisdom.
Chinese character symbols flash sheet
Black and grey flash collage of Totoro-style creatures in ink sketches, with plants, mushrooms, a pair of Chinese characters and an Art Nouveau reclining figure.
Totoro sketches, botanicals and Art Nouveau figures
Black lettering design of the Chinese characters for family above the English word Family, on a plain white background, with no body placement shown.
Chinese characters for family
A bold black brush-style Chinese character on a white background, shown as a standalone tattoo design with no body part visible.
Bold black Chinese character
Black and white flash sheet of fourteen tattoo designs, including Chinese characters for health, wisdom and love, a bagua, and a mystic knot, each with a printed English label.
Chinese symbol flash sheet with labelled motifs
Cartoon collage of eleven tattoo designs, including a PIN and password on the chest, an Apple logo on an upper arm, and the words Mrs Christian Grey on a ribbon.
Eleven badly judged tattoo ideas illustrated
Grid of twelve dark red Chinese character tattoo designs, each with an English label such as Music, Long Life, Peace and Mother.
Twelve Chinese character tattoo designs
Black ink Chinese characters with English captions reading Sisters, Elder Sister and Younger Sister, shown as a lettering tattoo design sheet with no body placement.
Chinese characters for sisters, elder and younger
Black lettering design of three Chinese characters with the English words live, laugh and love printed beneath them, shown on a plain white background with no body placement.
Live laugh love in Chinese characters
Black lettering design showing the words True Love above the Chinese characters for true love, with the pronunciation jen ai written below.
True love in Chinese characters
Tattoo design of two bold black Chinese characters above the words Best Friend in script, set on a tan kraft-paper background.
Chinese characters and Best Friend lettering
Black ink flash design of three Chinese characters stacked vertically, labelled in capitals as love, peace and happiness, on a white background.
Love, peace and happiness characters