My £100 tattoo is the wrong tattoo ...aibu to complain?

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About 7 years ago I got a tattoo on my wrist of the Chinese symbol “mother”
My mum died when I was a teenager so I had this idea that it would be nice.
A few months ago I started a new job and made friends with a lady from China...she informed me my mum tattoo wasn’t the correct symbol for mum and in fact it didn’t mean anything.
I’m so upset,would you go back to the shop?

"Trills

I like the idea of having a tattoo of improved song lyrics"

🎶 she said her love for me would never die
That'd change if she ever found out about you and me 🎶
Bold replicated in tattoo, obviously :o

It is ridiculous to suggest she learns Mandarin before having the tattoo.

Yes that would be ridiculous. Which is why no-one suggested it. People suggested she confirm the symbol was correct before having it permanently inked on her skin. Not so ridiculous.

Wow some of the bitchy comments on this thread are horrible.

I know someone that had the chinese symbol for woman on her fanjo.... she loved it until she showed it to someone chinese and they absolutely roared with laughter. She no longer shaves that area...........

Reminds me, I was once in a queue and woman in front had the arabic alphabet tattooed all down her back, with the third letter tattooed in massive font and the other letters getting smaller and smaller and disappearing.

I always wondered why.

Wouldn't bother, and I say this as someone who, drunkenly, and with my equally drunken sister, got each others names in Chinese tattooed on our arse cheek.

Pretty sure they say sweet and sour chicken but the sentiment behind them makes us both laugh, and my husband doesn't speak and read Chinese, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m sure I read in the news about a lad who had ‘nice boy but ugly’ tattood on him but he thought it said something like ‘strength’.

He only found out because he went into a chinese takeaway and they were pissing themselves.

I don't think you can complain after all this time, no. I would design your own tattoo, not one off a board, of something special to remember your mother and go get the symbol covered up with that.

Oh, look! A Working Class person with tattoos! Let's all sneer at her!

WTF did class come into it ? Projection much ?

Although unfortunate, I don’t think you don’t have grounds to complain now. But it doesn’t matter now, the character on your wrist has now come to represent your mum to you.

For what it’s worth, I can read/speak some Chinese; mother in Chinese can be written in different ways, such as:
吗 or 媽 (Mum in simplified or Traditional Chinese characters)
母 or 母亲 (mother)

Oh oh and I was walking with a friend behind a hippy chick who had Arabic tattoo on the back of her neck. He was sniggering because it said ‘donkey’ (which is a bit of an insult in any language really).

I still have hope that it does actually mean 'mother', in some form.

£100 on basic flash from the wall small enough to fit on your wrist.

An incorrect tattoo.

Affecting your job prospects.

It’s almost like a tattoo-hater trying to create a bunfight isn’t it? How coincidental.

You could get it covered with a bigger one, but why would you consider that if a smaller one has affected your job prospects.

NewYearNewMe18 I just felt the posts were a bit insensitive. And calling someone an 'idiot' for doing something to remember their mum... just nasty.

We all make slightly ill thought out decisions when we're young.
As pointed out, it's a symbol to you of your mother and that's what's important.

Perhaps do some research to find out if your symbol means anything in a different language.
It's a bit embarrassing if people ask what it means but you can say it represents your late mum and leave it at that.

Don't go on Tattoo Fixers unless you want your tiny tattoo covered up by a foot long heavily inked dragon or similar.

This happened to me, I went into a tattoo shop at 14 years old and flicked through the flash and got my second tattoo. It was a small kanji symbol on my shoulder blade in 1996. I chose the one that meant tiger, not for the meaning but because I liked the shape of it and kanji's were all the rage. Fast forward 10 years and I went for a massage. The lovely Asian practitioner became very excited and asked me why I had the world "mole" tattooed on my back. Not mole like a lump on your face, mole like "dig under the ground" were his words. I found it hysterical tbh and it became a symbol for me and my nob head teenager years. I got it covered a few years ago.

OP, if you love it and what it means, keep it. if you don't, get it covered up. But shop around, go to an artist that doesn't have flash boards up as a proper artist will have a waiting list AND draw you up a specific design. I have several large tattoos ranging from a Japanese sleeve to a icelandic snow globe. Ignore the haters. They only like pearl clutching, vanilla flavoured, cardboard cut outs of themselves.

And calling someone an 'idiot' for doing something to remember their mum

But you don't need a tattoo to remember your mum

You can just.....remember your mum.

If it reminds you of your mum, it's doing its job. It represents your mum, just a symbol. (It could have been an awful lot worse - it could have been a really bad portrait.)

And calling someone an 'idiot...

Ah, so only people that don't work do that then.

I'd have thought being 'working class' would be an asset. Better than being non WORKING.

Or have I missed the point of your daft comment?

Ugandan you might want to translate onto plums for non-Scottish MNetters. 😂

JaneEyre tattoo on her fanjo! Ouch!

Don't go on Tattoo Fixers unless you want your tiny tattoo covered up by a foot long heavily inked dragon or similar.

My exact thoughts too.

I watch Tattoo Fixers with my jaw hitting the floor. Not only are the majority of their cover ups really poor work, they are MASSIVE compared to the tat that's being worked on.

You say the tattoo you have, has no meaning. I would look at it this way, it has a very special meaning now, a tribute to your lovely Mum.
It doesn't matter at all really, does it ?
You've had it for seven years, carry on with your life, it really isn't worth getting worked up over.🌸

Mole

I like the cut of your jib, fanny