What does a chai tattoo symbolize?

the phrase l'chaiyam means "to life". my family says it as a toast before we eat.

chaya means living thing or animal as well. chai is composed of two letters of the Hebrew alphabet Het and Yod.

18 is a lucky number in Judaism, and in gematria (numerology of the Hebrew language) the chai symbol adds up to 18..

Holocaust victims had numbers tattooed on their arms at the concentration camps.... they were tattooed with numbers of death.

getting the chai tattoo means getting tattooed with the numbers of life.

to life.