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Could someone please explain to me what the big attraction is for guys, with great bodies, to have Chinese Characters tattooed on their upper torsos. What am I missing?

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Could someone please explain to me what the big attraction is for guys, with great bodies, to have Chinese Characters tattooed on their upper torsos. What am I missing?

 

It is what is currently "in" and it is also Hebrew characters, words in other languages, and just about anything else that will make people ask "what does that mean?"

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I wonder how many of them really know the meaning of the characters. I have a favorite t-shirt which I bought in Tokyo that has a large character on the front, which I was told means "We're #1!" But for all I know, it may really mean "gaijin [foreign devil]."

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I wonder how many of them really know the meaning of the characters.

 

Chinese Characters and David Beckham

 

"The year 2008 was a busy one for Beckham body art. In March of that year the midfielder showed off a large Chinese motif running down his left rib-cage. The text translates as: "Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend upon heaven."

Here's a look - see at the tattoo :

 

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g372/dluffy28/david%20beckham%20tattoos/beckhamtattoos07.jpg

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"gaijin [foreign devil]."

 

Does it look like this: 外人?. Literally "outside person." I believe that there is disagreement even among Japanese as to whether or not gaijin has pejorative connotations. Lol, probably depends on how the speaker views non-Japanese.

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Chinese Characters and David Beckham

 

"The year 2008 was a busy one for Beckham body art. In March of that year the midfielder showed off a large Chinese motif running down his left rib-cage. The text translates as: "Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend upon heaven."

Here's a look - see at the tattoo :[/color]

 

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g372/dluffy28/david%20beckham%20tattoos/beckhamtattoos07.jpg

 

So that's what it means. And here I was thinking it was a really fancy PIN number he'd put some place so he wouldn't have to memorize it.

 

But to answer Charlie's question. I think the reasons for the popularity are because it's exotic and because calligraphy is beautiful.

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Agree with justaguy---tats in languages that many here in the USA would not recognise are exotic and may spark interest and calligraphy can be not only artistic but esthetically beautiful.

BTW it's not just a West Coast thing as someone suggested--here in the east it's common and not just in the large urban areas but in small towns everywhere that I have traveled in the last 5 years.

Personally I find them appealing if they are small and well done. Beckham's is a little over the top, but then so is he and even more so, his wife.

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Could someone please explain to me what the big attraction is for guys, with great bodies, to have Chinese Characters tattooed on their upper torsos. What am I missing?

 

Its merely a personal expression Epig, and more artisitic and visual than english words.

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[/url] Literally "outside person." I believe that there is disagreement even among Japanese as to whether or not gaijin has pejorative connotations. Lol, probably depends on how the speaker views non-Japanese.

It doesn't look anything like that, so maybe it does mean "We're #1." I remember walking through a small back street in Kyoto and passing an old woman who angrily muttered "Gaijin," as we passed.

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