Requesting for help on getting a Chinese tattoo

August 21, 2025 at 04:14 AM

Hi. Glad to have seen this forum and have been reading some of the posts.

I am posting to seek guidance for a tattoo i’m planning to have.

I have been wanting to get a chinese character/s tattoo, however, I needed help to check if it’s the correct characters, the correct placement and that I am not disrespecting the culture.
I plan on getting “Fu”, “Lu”, “Shou” tattoo vertically with the chinese character Fu on top. I plan to place it on my left leg near the thigh area. The actual characters are attached.

seeking for advices please if these is acceptable as this will be my first tattoo. Any suggestions for the background? Your inputs/suggestion are much appreciated.

thanks.

August 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM

Nice to hear you appreciate the aesthetic of Chinese characters and this being the motivation for the tattoo. 福祿壽 feels quite like an 'old person' kind of phrase, but at least Chinese people will see it and think at least there is some awareness of Chinese culture there. If you want something traditional, you could also consider a 成語 (4 character Chinese idiom) rather than this. As always, the advice we give here is, study some Chinese for a while (you're going to have this on your body for the rest of your life, so you can spare the time cost) until you can 'feel' what the characters you're getting tattooed really feel like in 'reality' (ie. not just behind the mystique of non-understanding). Hope this helps in your decision making.