Chinese Tattoo Designs

His first tattoo? Chris "Birdman" Andersen turns over his left forearm. He points to a Chinese symbol in black ink amid the body by Britto.

"Good,'' he says, translating the symbol.

He turns over his right forearm to show another Chinese symbol.

"Evil,'' he says.

What do you do when your life is a contradiction? When your public self clashes with your private story? When you bodily broadcast yourself like a cartoon figure through tattoos and a Mohawk haircut, but move quietly and are really, as Heat teammate Dwyane Wade says, "a man of few words?"