Becks' New Tat: Say What?

David Beckham airs out his hot abs and shows off some new body art. Becks and the rest of the LA Galaxy were in Dallas playing a sold-out charity game against FC Dallas.

We're not sure what kind of writing Becks has scribbled on him (Buddhist? Japanese? Buddha-nese?) or what the heck it says. Any guesses?

UPDATE:
TMZ's resident Asian orthography expert reveals that the ink is comprised of cursive Chinese characters, the first of which means "life," and another of which means long life. There are several characters meaning "wealth." All in all, something along the lines of Becks being rich for a real long time. Yeah, that seems about right.



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46. IT MEANS STICK IT IN SLOW!

Posted at 6:02PM on Mar 17th 2008 by NEVADA

47. it means take that whore you call a wife and put both you and it on a slow boat back to england...........posh sucks bigtime and so does gay beckham. you'd have to be gay to be with that uglee afgan dog

Posted at 5:38PM on Mar 24th 2008 by j-ho,j-ho crackhead marc anthony

48. Why does he feel the need to deface his lovely body that way? Usually, tat lovers have ugly flabby bods without any firmness ... the tats cover up a multitude of sins.

But when one's body is so beautiful, it's just ... vandalism.

Posted at 6:21PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Sunny

49. Oh my God this is so obvious.....of course it says something in scientology talk considering his wife and all their best friends are part of that cult. It probably says something like give me all your money, your identity and if you decide to leave we will kill you.

Posted at 10:55AM on Mar 18th 2008 by lame

50. It says "I am a Muslim terrorist. Attach vest bomb here".

Posted at 6:13PM on Mar 17th 2008 by TMZ promotes worthless nobodys

51. Yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 6:40PM on Mar 17th 2008 by lovelyliz

52. The tat is a Chinese proverb he heard years ago and has always planned to have scribbled on his skin.
It means: “Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend upon heaven.”

Posted at 10:38PM on Mar 17th 2008 by Village Idiot

53. It is chinese. It reads '生死由命,富贵在天', which means 'live or die is predetermined by one's destiny, rich or poor is decided by god'. It is really pretty handwriting

Posted at 1:38AM on Mar 18th 2008 by Binherd

54. MMMMMMMMM, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, GOOD!

Posted at 2:20AM on Mar 18th 2008 by CAMBELLS SOUP.

55. It's"生死由命,富贵在天”
It generally means that your life or your wealth can't be controlled by yourself.

Posted at 5:36AM on Mar 18th 2008 by Jon To

56. It's a Chinese proverb meaning: “Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend upon heaven.”

Posted at 4:42PM on Mar 18th 2008 by meoryou

57. It is a famous CHinese proverb written in CHinese caligraphy (beautifully written", literally translated as "life or death is determined by your fate and wealth determined by God." , which suggests that you have no control over things like this, what will happen will happen in terms of life, death or wealth.

Posted at 9:33AM on Mar 18th 2008 by VCT

58. Ok, it's actually a very well-known phrase which contains 8 Chinese characters but Beckham shows 7 out of 8 only.

The complete phrase is:
"生死有命, 富貴由天" (if you can read these)
= "life death has destiny, wealth rich by sky" (word-to-word)
= "how long you can live is under your destiny's control, whether you are rich or not depends on the fate" (meaning)

So the last word "sky" is trapped in Beckham's pants.

It happens that I'm a translator in Hong Kong and it happened that I'm reading TMZ.

Posted at 10:40AM on Mar 18th 2008 by hongkonger

59. I just know it's some sort of Braille. I'd have to touch it to know it's true meaning. [heavy sigh]
=)~

Posted at 3:19PM on Mar 18th 2008 by Spot

60. It means "I'm really hot---and you haters are jealous!!!!"

Posted at 2:28PM on Mar 28th 2008 by catmonster

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