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May 8

Chinese?

http://www.dailyforest.com/entertainment/tattoo-fails/75

What does this say? Thanks

First, to be very clear, it is nonsense. The characters are badly formed to the point that I am guessing at what characters he meant to use. I assume he intended to use: 殺生皮仁. The third character is very hard to make out because it is such a mess. But, assuming I got the first two correct, it is shasheng, a phrase which can me "killing." The last two look like piren, which has no meaning. It is "skin" and "honor". I figure that I got the third character wrong and it is supposed to be some form of the word "benevolence." Therefore, he thinks it says something like "killing is benevolent."

UPDATE: I scanned gang tattoos with bad Chinese and I found many use 戌仁 for "gang." That is American slang. It isn't Chinese. 12.207.168.3 (talk) 11:55, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]