The word English doesn't have. Excellent choice.

What a Japanese person actually thinks
Sophisticated. This is a word Japanese people find beautiful and slightly untranslatable, so a foreigner wearing it reads as someone who went past the first page of results.

Meaning

Literally: thread + edge
Actually: The invisible karmic thread that brings particular people together — not fate in general, but the specific pull between two people who were going to meet.

Scores

Naturalness●●●●●

Common word, deep concept.

Coolness●●●●●

Says something real, in one character, that no English tattoo can say. This is what a good kanji tattoo is for.

Watch out

lowAlso means 'edge' or 'rim' in some compounds. Alone, the fated-connection reading dominates completely.

On skin

縁

Orientation: either

Mincho or fine brush. The 糸 radical needs a steady hand.