This site just adds to my point:

The character shown ? does not mean "geisha" when it is just by itself alone.

? means "prostitute".

And your kids, and maybe yourself are eating this shit up like solid cocaine. Seriously, my ex brother-in-law had "I like pussy" (in his translation from a small city tattoo shop) in "Mandarin" on his forearm. He wore it like some badge of honor. I reminded him he was from Texas prior to relocation near where I left the exes.

I asked him how he knew the symbols were letters....err.....caracters. His response was "This one is the letter I...a space, then L, then......

I left it at that. White guys with chinese anything if they're not married to one are not cool.