Funny Chinese slang you’ve learned from reading novels

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  1. Szara

    Szara Your average American Psycho

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    When I read translated stories, I’m always amused by the Chinese slang I’ve learned like...
    • Hugging a golden thigh = finding a powerful protector
    • Brewing soy sauce = sex
    • Cut sleeve = gay
    • Green hat = cuckhold
    • Chrysanthemum = back entrance
    • Shooting the Rocket = masterbation
    There’s a lot more but I mostly remember the dirty stuff :sweating_profusely: And the footnotes explaining Chinese culture are always interesting as well.
     
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    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀｀●)

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    driving car :3
     
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    sometimes its normal to hit the airplane
     
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    XenoRaku 「Punished Lolicon」「Ugly Bastard」「Haunted」「NEET」

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    Celestial crab
     
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    tak ignorant but well-meant

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    i wonder how buying soysauce (passing by) came about...
    • Dog food (PDA) and single dogs
    • 520 & 521 (i love you)
    • Greeting their ancestor (cursing though generations)
     
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    Szara Your average American Psycho

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    Ooooh yeah! I had forgotten about these!

    But what does ‘driving car’ and ‘celestial crab’ mean? :hmm:
     
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    ArgosYesu Lord of Some Lands, Editor of Others

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    Green Tea Bitch = Cute and innocent face, snobbish/sluttish personality.
     
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    Mud grass horse :LOL::LOL::LOL:

    Not 'celestial crab' but 'river crab', something to do with China's cencorships
     
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    Add oil!
     
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    XenoRaku 「Punished Lolicon」「Ugly Bastard」「Haunted」「NEET」

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    Celestial crab is like the Fuck you of internet in china iirc not sure but i saw it in the first few chapters of Long live summons
     
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    Driving car(actually a bus) is the chinese version of shipping. In this case the bus driver is the person creating the shipping material, like an author or a fanartist. The 'passengers' are the shippers and 'swiping card' means to 'tap on' to the ship/getting onto the ship.

    Celestial crab is actually river crab. It's a funny way to refer to censorship in China because the reason they use to censor something is for the sake of 'harmony' or 和谐 (he2 xie2). It's a homophone for river crab which is 河蟹 (he2 xie4) and a way they discuss censorship without being found out.
     
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    Nice boat
     
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    Fluffy Jellyfish 『Number 1 Lolicon under Heaven』

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    Chinese slang is on the next level :blobpopcorn:
     
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    White moonlight.
    Mosquito blood.
    Green tea bitch
    Pa pa pa!
    Dog blood.
    Being inyected with chicken blood.
    Being quiet as a chicken.
    Having skin as a boiled egg or skin that pinched could pour water lol
    Eating vinegar.
    Add oil.
    Wearing a green hat.
    77777, 233 and 250.

    Cant remember more right now
     
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    White lotus
    Mary Sue
    Dog anything
    Bear child
     
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    Baidu 10 mythical creatures. Each one holds immense power. Notable examles are French-Croatian Squid (法克鱿, Fǎ Kè Yóu) and Grass Mud Horse (草泥马, Cǎo Ní Mǎ). Though the second one is often misread as Cào Nǐ Mā (肏你妈), which is an F word involving the mother of the person you are talking to.
     
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    I bought a watch last year = WQNMLGB(我去年买了个表) = initials for 我去你妈了隔壁 (I'll f your mom's p***y)
     
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    Oh I know which novel this came from. The author didn't mean to use "brewing sauce" as a euphemism for sex. She used "酱酱酿酿", which is a casual/cutesy way of saying "这样那样". If you say it fast, 酱 jiang sounds like 这样 zhe yang while 酿 niang sounds like 那样 na yang.

    "这样那样" simply means "this and that" (e.g. he did this and that to her) so "brewing sauce" is a happy mistranslation that came about cause 酱 means sauce while 酿 means brew. Using "brewing sauce" for sex is... a little visual but oddly apt :blobpeek:

    It's not just shipping. Driving = sex/ sexual stuff. That's where you get all the jokes in the comments section and the author's notes on how they tried to drive but failed (aka they tried to touch on more heated stuff but got caught by censorship) or how the author is driving a baby carriage (婴儿车), which means that the 'heated' stuff they wrote is suuuuper mild.
     
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    Solus 自分のことお嫌いです

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    419 - One night stand
    2333 - LOL
    5555 - cries/sob
    mb - mothafaka
    mmp - fcuk
    yd - lood
    yy - fantasize (i can't think of a better English word)
     
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    In Western, 666 is the number of the Beast/Devil.
    In China, 666 is the number of phraising.
     
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