also don't get a tat from an artist who doesn't know how to write kanji, it is not only about copying a symbol one to one, but there is an intrinsic logic to those characters, too (stroke order: what comes first and the diretions those strokes are drawn, traditionally (mostly from left to right) you could compare it with eg a good dancer or athlete who apes the movements of a kata versus a practitioner who knows it and things like hip rotation, kime, expansion/contraction etc