Chinese calligraphy tattoos

Today, Chinese calligraphy tattoos can be found worldwide.

Calligraphy is considered supreme among the visual arts in China and sets the standard for which Chinese painting is judged.

Chinese calligraphy and painting are closely related.

[1][needs context] In pre-modern China, textual tattoos were used as a punishment for criminals.

[2] Tattoos of Chinese characters and Japanese kanji are common in the modern Western world; often the characters used are ungrammatical, meaningless or incorrectly drawn, as neither the tattooist nor the recipient understand the languages in question and they merely choose the characters based on their aesthetic appearance.