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  2. Mandarin Chinese profanity - Wikipedia

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    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. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human.

  3. List of loanwords in Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Loanwords have entered written and spoken Chinese from many sources, including ancient peoples whose descendants now speak Chinese. In addition to phonetic differences, varieties of Chinese such as Cantonese and Shanghainese often have distinct words and phrases left from their original languages which they continue to use in daily life and sometimes even in Mandarin.

  4. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Thus, there is no need to ascribe to common ancestry the similarities of !Kung ba, Aramaic abba, Mandarin Chinese bàba, Yoruba bàbá, and Persian baba (all "father"); or Navajo amá, Mandarin Chinese māma, Swahili mama, Quechua mama, and Polish mama (all "mother"). For the same reason, some scientists believe that 'mama' and 'papa' were ...

  5. Chinese kinship - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese kinship system (simplified Chinese: 亲属系统; traditional Chinese: 親屬系統; pinyin: qīnshǔ xìtǒng) is among the most complicated of all the world's kinship systems. It maintains a specific designation for almost every member's kin based on their generation, lineage, relative age, and gender.

  6. Chinese dama - Wikipedia

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    Chinese dama (simplified Chinese: 中国大妈; traditional Chinese: 中國大媽; lit. 'Chinese big mother') is a term for describing Chinese middle-aged women. The term has several meanings and has experienced changes over the years.

  7. Hokkien profanity - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Cantonese profanity - Wikipedia

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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).

  9. List of Chinese animated series - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Chinese animated TV shows sorted by year. in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan; they are in Mandarin Chinese language only: ... Mom I'm Sorry ...