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I'm trying to establish a translation for this symbol, but my Google-<deleted> is letting me down. It looks vaguely like the "om" symbol (not the one that everyone gets tattooed on themselves), but it doesn't seem complete. I think it may be related to Buddhism in some way, and Googling is returning a few references to "Thai tattoo", so here I am..........

Can anyone assist?

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I'd say I'm 99% sure that's Om/Aum. My first guess would be that it's in a Tibetan script (or possibly a tattoo artist's attempt at a Tibetan script), but that's just a guess at the language.

In most scripts, the Aum symbol is an artistic combination of the a, u and m (or nasalization) characters. I can see all three of those components in the attached image. (I don't know what language it is, but there's a lot of similarity between different Indic and South East Asian scripts, and variations on those three symbols are definitely in there.)

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