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Do you know, Some Chinese symbol characters actually have two versions. While people from Taiwan and Hong Kong are still using the traditional Chinese characters, people from mainland China are using the simplified characters in their writing communications. The difference between the two versions for the same character sometimes is huge.
Let's take Chinese symbol for "dragon" as an example, inTaiwan, Hong Kong or most China towns in the West, the "dragon" symbol is written as " 龍 " . But in mainland China, the same symbol for "dragon" is written as "龙" . The difference is shown more clearly by the picture given below:
The main problem about most Chinese tattoos websites is if a Chinese tattoo site's owners originally were from Taiwan or Hong Kong, they can only do your tattoo design with the traditional characters and if the site's owners were from mainland China, they can only show you the simplified characters for tattoo designs.
We feel either way does not fully serve your needs. So, we are here to presenting both traditional and simplified Chinese characters in order to show you the full picture of Chinese character tattoos. Read more in Related sections
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In some Chinese classical literatures, tattoo was called "Ci Shen" (刺身) or "Ci Chin" (刺青), which means "puncturing the body". Sometimes, it was also called "body decoration" (紋身) or "carve in the bluish green"(纹青). 
In Chinese history, the government officials used to adopt "Tattooing people's face" as a kind of torturing punishment for "criminal offenders". There were 5 traditional torturing punishments for criminals with tattooing being one of them. 
As Chinese characters have over thousands of years' history, there have been developed many different versions of writing styles for each character. 
