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The Chinese character 屄 consists of two parts: the upper part is 尸 that means "body" while the bottom part 穴 means "a hole". The Chinese character thus literally means a "hole at the bottom of the body". [1] Two common phrases include 傻㞓 so4 hai1 (silly cunt) and 臭㞓 cau3 hai1 (stinking cunt).
The Traditional Chinese characters for the word huài dàn (坏蛋/壞蛋), a Mandarin Chinese profanity meaning, literally, "bad egg". Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother.
Korean, Vietnames, some Chinese dialects and minority languages (such as Zhuang and Yao) that use Chinese characters also have similar pronunciation methods for Chinese characters. In Korea, Kun'yomi is called "interpretation reading" (釋讀). These phenomena also appear in Mandarin and English, such as "i.e." is read as "that is".
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Mandarin on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Mandarin in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
However, ABC English–Chinese, Chinese–English Dictionary (2010) [3] uses the following notation to indicate both the original tone and the tone after the sandhi: 一 (yī) pronounced in second tone (yí) is written as yị̄. [a] e.g. 一共 (underlying yīgòng, realized as yígòng) is written as yị̄gòng
A New Zealand landlord who was locked in a dispute with the Chinese embassy over rubbish disposal has lost a NZ$960 ($559;£462) claim. Chandler Investments Limited claimed the embassy left a ...
Kan (Chinese: 姦; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kàn), literally meaning fuck, is the most common but grossly vulgar profanity in Hokkien.It's sometimes also written as 幹.It is considered to be the national swear word in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore.
In the tables, the first two columns contain the Chinese characters representing the classifier, in traditional and simplified versions when they differ. The next four columns give pronunciations in Standard (Mandarin) Chinese, using pinyin; Cantonese, in Jyutping and Yale, respectively; and Minnan (Taiwan). The last column gives the classifier ...