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Hanzi Smatter is a sort of reverse Engrish: it documents bad and non-sensical written Chinese and Japanese in tattoos and elsewhere.

The first character is correct and means “mother”.

The second one, I am not sure if it was suppose be a Christian cross, means “ten” with four sparkling flares, or [another character which] means “rice” which also phonetically translated as America in Japanese.

The third one is a mistake. The character is vertically mirrored. When written correctly, [it] means “thing, substance, creature”.

The last character means “expensive, costly, valuable”.

Even if all the characters are correctly tattooed, the translation would still be:

“The Mother Ten Things Are Expensive”

This satire may not be far off the mark.

(Entry title is from Committed — that’s the only bit I’ve seen, on a commercial.)