Names in Chinese Writing Tattoo - Make Your Name Into Art

Names in Chinese Writing Tattoo, a growing trend among famous and influential people is considered a mysterious and exotic tattoo design to have. All thanks to the different beautiful styles namely formal, fluid, graceful, abstract, balanced and playful behind the characters!

Dating back to over 5000 years ago, Chinese characters grew from pictographs to more conceptual ideograms to the modern-day characters. The characters are divided into pictographs, mideograms and phonograms. Flow, rhythm, balance, line, and structure are the essence behind the characters. As times evolved, many Chinese symbols were adopted by the western tattooists as designs to be tattooed, especially as Names in Chinese Writing Tattooing, which is done in several ways, to name a few: transliteration, translation, and custom made.

Transliteration is easy, using Chinese characters of which intonations are similar to the syllables of an English name. But it is important to know that Chinese language has many different dialects that give different intonations. If you want your name translated, then be aware that speakers of different dialects may have different transliterations for your name.

Most Chinese names have two or three characters, with the first character being the surname and the remaining characters being the first name. There are only about 100 common Chinese surnames and if you give your full name, the nearest toning Chinese surname will be used. Your name will then be translated phonetically into Chinese letterings which sound alike.

But note that Western names can not be translated well into Chinese at all times. If yours can not, it's always best to ask Chinese-speaking people to invent a Chinese name for you. This name should sound nice and normal and should evoke positive qualities like beauty, well-being, strength and wealth.

And as you wish, you can have a writing of your own style: cartoons, modern, technical and even classical. With the great help of online service now, tattoo styling had never been this easy!

 

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