He has always enjoyed spotting people with what they believe to be Chinese letters tattooed on their lower back, left bicep, or iliac crest, letters that they were told meant "wisdom" or "patience" but actually stand for "dumbass." He no longer points this out to people, however, having grown tired of being hollered at about it.
That brings us to Ariana Grande, the former star of "Sam And Cat" and singer of a dozen or so big pop hits. She has a habit of running to the tattoo parlor, for Pete's sake, every time something big happens in her life, and so, to commemorate the release of her new song "7 Rings," she had "7 Rings" tattooed on her hand in Japanese kanji characters.
But she didn't; the characters of her left palm actually say "small barbecue grill."
She put the above photo up on her Japanese Twitter (and if you've never had a Japanese Twitter, you don't know what you're missing!), but those letters say “shichirin,” and that's a small charcoal grill in Japanese.
The website Kotaku says that "the tattoo symbols technically mean 'seven' and 'ring,' but when you add those characters together, they take on a whole different meaning: '七輪 (shichirin) is a ‘small charcoal grill’ and not ‘seven rings,’ which is written differently in Japanese.”
The correct expression of “seven rings” — 七つの指輪, or nanatsu no yubiwa — does appear in the music video for the song.
This is a lot like the time when egomaniac Chad Johnson, late of the Cincinnati Bengals, said he wanted his uniform number 85 for his name in Spanish, but he thought that 85 translated as "Ocho Cinco" instead of the correct "Ochenta y cinco."
Back to Ariana's hand, she tweeted that she “left out ‘つの指’ which should have gone in between” the symbols, but “it hurt like *%#!" so she told the tattoo artist to stop then and there. And what's more, she likes teeny grills, so there's that.
I still plan to get "I'M THE ONLY HELL MY MOTHER EVER RAISED" on my right forearm. Watch this space!
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