[KyleGoetz]

Of course, but the guy asked about getting a kanji name and recently used justification of why it's not an idiotic idea that non-Chinese have kanji names in Chinese (forgive me for using "kanji" rather than "hanzi" here, but I suspect most people here would not know the meaning of the latter).

You directly responded by saying "when I was in Japan . . . ." I was merely trying to point out that he started talking about China, so a katakana name became irrelevant, assuming he decided to get a Chinese tattoo and not a Japanese tattoo.

At least, that's how I read it. Granted, I haven't been real involved in this thread recently (and I wrote the comment under pressure to finish my scholarly article after graduation), so I could have made a mistake.