Ink as witness.
A Chinese tattoo with a story.
Every design is grounded in form research and verified stroke by stroke by native speakers, delivered as a stencil-ready file your artist can work from directly. The story comes with it.
Grounded in the classics.
Every subject starts in texts and artifacts — the form tradition it belongs to and the story behind it, written out on each card.
Designed by native hands.
Characters are chosen, judged and checked stroke by stroke by native Chinese speakers — every piece drawn for the body it will live on.
Content comes first.
Learn the story and spirit behind a design first, and whether they truly match you — then decide whether to wear it. Never ink just for the sake of looking good.
Every design is drawn from the classics.
Browse the full collection →Bring us the idea. We'll bring the receipts.
Tell us the subject, the placement and the size, and we hand back three concepts with their full bilingual interpretation attached. A $9 deposit starts the work and is credited in full against the plan you choose. If the concepts never arrive, the deposit is refunded in full.
Start a custom designNot sure which character holds up? Look it up first.
Open the dictionary →Four worth reading
- Am I getting a picture, or files I can actually use?
- A 1:1 two-tone stencil, a high-resolution reference render, and the bilingual story card. All three download from your account; email only tells you they are ready.
- Who actually checks the Chinese?
- Four automated gates, then a native Mandarin speaker reads the characters by stroke. We inspect the first fifty orders in full and sample ten percent after that.
- What if a character comes out wrong?
- Full refund and a free remake. Character errors are the one failure we name in the refund terms rather than the fine print.
- Can I use these commercially, resell them, or hand them to a tattoo shop?
- Personal use covers you and the artist working on you. Commercial use, resale and redistribution are outside that licence.