Tattos from Chinese proverbs, aphorisms or adages
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Tattoo phrases could be short Chinese proverbs. They can be witty words, clever remarks, or Chinese idioms. Some are taken from poems or literature. Others are excerpts from moral lessons. Proverbs convey your desire, hope, dream, and even hardship. Compared to quotes, they are shorter and have simpler meanings. Typically, a proverb tattoo has 3 or 4 Chinese characters (symbols). The design looks sophisticated and many people find it attractive. The phrases are meaningful yet concise.
Defining your tattoo project involves at least two important steps:
- choosing the subject of your tattoo (many examples are given below);
- choosing the Chinese calligraphy style.
The artist designer Ngan Siu-Mui will provide the proper Chinese translation, if required, which is a very important and delicate step; she will then submit a design for your approval. The suggested design will, of course, take into account the position of the tattoo on your body and all the numerous elements that have to be harmoniously combined to insure that your tattoo will be a unique artistic composition.
Examples of tattoo proverbs, meaningful phrases and words.
- Ambition
- Hidden dragon, crouching tiger (4 characters)
- The world is my home (4 characters)
- Never give up (4 characters)
- A heavy load and a long journey lead to success (4 characters)
- Beauty
- Heavenly beauty (4 characters)
- As beautiful as as peach and plum flowers (4 characters)
- Destiny
- See death as returning home (4 characters)
- Be comfortable for what one encounters (4 characters)
- Happiness
- Self reliance spawns contentment (4 characters)
- There may be gold and jade to fill a hall (4 characters)
- Live in peace tho' living away from home (4 characters)
- People who are content in life will always find happiness (4 characters)
- Harmony
- Quiet thoughts mend the body (4 characters)
- Follow your heart (4 characters)
- Body and mind in harmony (4 characters)
- Knowledge
- Learning without satiety (3 characters)
- Literary, Ethics, Loyalty, Trustworthy (4 characters)
- Love
- With friends, a thousand cups of wine is not enough (3 characters)
- Love at first sight (4 characters)
- Permanent love as the eternal heaven and everlasting earth (4 characters)
- Perseverance
- With the sense of shame to restrain their own behavior (4 characters)
- Loyalty to serve the country (4 characters)
- Seeking truth from facts (4 characters)
- A heavy load and a long journey lead to success (4 characters)
- A promise should be as good as gold (4 characters)
- Wisdom
- Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles (3 characters)
- It is virtues manners which constitute the excellence of a neighborhood (4 characters)
- When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them (4 characters)
- Literary, Ethics, Loyalty, Trustworthy (4 characters)
- Generosity wins every heart (3 characters)
- Being a loving father and to teach (4 characters)/li>
- The benevolent has no enemy (4 characters)
- Not hesitate to mend (4 characters)
- Dishonesty cannot established (4 characters)
