Tuesday, July 9

Chinese Internet Slang and other

These days, I've been obsessed with Baidu Tieba and wow. Chinese people love "slang", but they're usually just puns or a change of pronunciation. I will keep adding to this list when I come across/remember new ones, so keep checking back!
My format for this list: "Slang"("pronunciation/pinyin") --> "Actual word (if any)": "definition". "variations"

General
有木有  (you mu you)--> 有没有 (you mei you): is there any
米 (mi)--> 没/没有 (mei/mei you): none
神马 (shen ma)--> 什么(shen me): what
肿么 (zhong me)--> 怎么 (zen me): how
妹纸 (mei zhi)--> 妹子 (mei zi): Little girl, used to sound cuter. The "zhi" can be replaced by mostly any word pronounced the same way. This is also used to replace many words with "zi"
锅 (guo)--> 哥 (ge): (Older) brother. 果(guo)
天朝 (tian chao): China
打酱油 (da jiang you): passing by
路过 (lu guo)/ 飘过 (piao guo): passing by
同志 (tong zhi): homosexual. Literally, comrade.
(gong): the one in a gay couple who "gives". 小攻 (xiao gong)
(shou): the one who "receives" 小受 (xiao shou), 受受 (shou shou)

For fangirl/boy purposes
本命 (ben ming): My life, basically the one you love the most.
男神 (nan shen): God, your favorite male celeb.
女神 (nv/nu shen): Goddess

黑 (hei): bashing other celebrities- making them seem worse.

For Tieba and other forums
楼主 (lou zhu): Topic starter. Literally, owner of the building. lz, 楼楼 (lou lou), 露珠 (lou zhu), 楼猪 (lou zhu, zhu meaning pig)
层主 (ceng zhu): Commenter. Literally, owner of the floor/layer. Used because in some forums, you can comment on comments.
水 (shui): Spam. Literally, water.
潜水 (qian shui): Not participating in topics. People who do this are part of the 潜水党 (qian shui dang), 党 is sort of like a group. (There are many other 党's)
冒泡 (mao pao): Resurfacing- after 潜水ing for a long time, finally commenting again.
顶 (ding): Pushing up a topic by commenting because the forums are ordered by most recent comments.
爆吧 (bao ba): Used in Tieba (idk about other forums) when many spammers dig up old topics and comment on them at the same time, causing the newer topics to be pushed to the bottom.
小吧 (xiao ba): Moderator 吧吧 (ba ba)

Insults
逼 (sha bi): stupid person. SB, 2B, 傻B,烧饼 (shao bing, a type of food), 傻比 (sha bi)
5 毛 (wu mao):  sorry, I don't know what this really means, but many people use it as an insult.
他妈的 (ta ma de): this is the classic swear. TMD 
棒子 (bang zi): racial slur for koreans. Used a lot when people bash kpop and kdramas. 

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