# The pisces symbol and others similar **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pisces-symbol-and-others-similar/775404 "2016-12-22T22:58:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pisces-symbol-and-others-similar/775404/1 "2016-12-22T22:58:36Z")
So I’m looking at getting tattoo that will, in part involve the pisces symbol. In particular, the one with two inwardly curved verticles and a straight horizontal line connecting the two. Since this is for a tattoo I think a little asking around is in order to set me in the right direction. Would this symbol be interpreted much differently across cultures or is it relatively static? How about variations on it? Say two curved verticles per side or with a diagonal in place of the horizontal line. Maybe turned 90deg? I’m not really sure how to research variations on symbols and meanings. I’d hate to find out my artistic license resulted in having some self depreciating obscenity printed on me. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pisces-symbol-and-others-similar/775404/2 "2016-12-22T23:02:19Z")
Moved from GD to IMHO. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pisces-symbol-and-others-similar/775404/3 "2016-12-22T23:34:24Z")
I had a feeling IMHO was the right place. I second guessed myself when I read " on less-than-cosmic topics" in the forum description.