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  2. Mandarin Chinese profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese word for bird "niǎo"(鸟) was pronounced as "diǎo" in ancient times, which rhymes with (屌) meaning penis or sexual organ. [15] It also sounds the same as "penis" in several Chinese dialects. Thus, bird is often associated with 'fuck', 'penis' or 'nonsense': wǒ niǎo nǐ (Chinese: 我鳥你) = I give a shit about you (Beijing ...

  3. Huanjing bunao - Wikipedia

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    Huanjing bunao (traditional Chinese: 還精補腦; simplified Chinese: 还精补脑; lit. 'returning the semen/essence to replenish the brain' or coitus reservatus) is a Daoist sexual practice and yangsheng ("nourishing life") method aimed at maintaining arousal for an extended plateau phase while avoiding orgasm.

  4. Taoist sexual practices - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese print depicting "The Joining of the Essences", based on Tang Dynasty art. Taoist sexual practices (traditional Chinese: 房中術; simplified Chinese: 房中术; pinyin: fángzhōngshù; lit. 'arts of the bedchamber') are the ways Taoists may practice sexual activity. These practices are also known as "joining energy" or "the joining ...

  5. List of love and lust deities - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus, god of wine and pleasure. Eos, the Greek dawn goddess. The Erotes. Anteros, god of requited love. Eros, god of love and procreation; originally a deity unconnected to Aphrodite, he was later made into her son, possibly with Ares as his father; this version of him was imported to Rome, where he came known as Cupid.

  6. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Words for these concepts are sometimes cited as antonyms to schadenfreude, as each is the opposite in some way. There is no common English term for pleasure at another's happiness (i.e.; vicarious joy), though terms like 'celebrate', 'cheer', 'congratulate', 'applaud', 'rejoice' or 'kudos' often describe a shared or reciprocal form of pleasure.

  7. Taṇhā - Wikipedia

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    Taṇhā is a Pali word, derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word tṛ́ṣṇā (तृष्णा), which originates from the Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas, which is related to the root tarś-(thirst, desire, wish), ultimately descending from Proto-Indo-European *ters-(dry).

  8. Cantonese profanity - Wikipedia

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    Lan (𡳞 or Chinese: 𨶙; Jyutping: lan2), more commonly idiomatically written as 撚 lan, is another vulgar word that means penis. [1] Similar to gau, this word is also usually used as an adverb. lan yeung (𡳞樣 or 撚樣) can be loosely translated as "dickface". [7] Euphemisms includes 懶 laan (lazy) or 能 nang (able to).

  9. Classical Chinese lexicon - Wikipedia

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    In syntax, Classical Chinese words are not restrictively categorized into parts of speech: nouns used as verbs, adjectives used as nouns, and so on. There is no copula in Classical Chinese; 是 (shì) is a copula in modern Chinese but in old Chinese it was originally a near demonstrative ('this'), the modern Chinese equivalent of which is 這 ...