Tattoo'ing my surname

[JohnNielsen]

Hello everyone.

As many others i find it interesting having my surname tattooed onto my body.

The thing is, that my sur name is Zaulich, which is rather special and therefor i haven't been able to find a translation.

And yes, i KNOW that the chineese is more rather a sound-language, which makes this type of translations partly incorrect.

Hope someone can help me translating this

/John

[yersi]

To get technical, there isn't really a "translation" for your last name. One way of doing it is to transcribe your last name phonetically using Chinese characters, which would be something like 萨奥里西 (pronounced Sa'aolixi). Another way, which I think is better, is to give you a unique Chinese name based on your first and last name. In your case, something like 曹杰安 (Cao Jie'an) would work . 曹 is a surname, 杰 means outstanding, and 安 means peace.

Also, as always, be careful when choosing your tattoo parlor (preferably a Chinese one) and think things through before you go ahead with this.

[BrandeX]

As for myself, I'd find out what language your last name is, and then what it means in that language, then get a character(s) that means relatively the same idea. However, I also think its a terrible idea to get this sort of tattoo as well, because due to its nature, it is invariably nonsense, and you may as well just get some random characters anyways.

[Lu]

What Brandex said (except that Zaulich looks like a German name, which makes a tattoo in the original language not too interesting). It might be a better idea to choose some characteristics or hopes for the future (strength, happiness, wealth, etc) and have the Chinese translation of those tattooed.