was it in Japanese ?

 One of the translators on the translator subreddit suggested that the characters on the Terryscope

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/05/terryscope-translated-from-chinese-to.html 

 could just as well be Japanese Kanji characters.  So I tried Kanji and got this:

did this preview 21st century people being tattooed with language characters they don't understand ?

They are all basically the same except for Akira which means discernment in English rather than bright as Ming does in Chinese. 

OTOH, the Google translator (I usually use the Bing translator) says that Akira means Ming in English :)
 

Basically they were just decorative characters !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm