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Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ⓘ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners.In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.
The character gui (鬼) can have negative connotations itself without the zi (子) suffix.For example, when it was attached to the Westerners in the term yang guizi (洋鬼子 'overseas devils') during the Boxer Rebellion, to the Japanese military in the term guizi bing (鬼子兵 'devil soldiers') during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and to the Korean collaborators with the term er guizi ...
Chinese Baptism (中国式洗礼, Zhōngguóshì xǐlǐ) – The new Chinese government. Baptism (洗礼, xǐlǐ) is a play on words referring to Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang. River crab (河蟹, héxiè) – Pun on héxié (和谐) meaning "harmony". Online Chinese term for Internet censorship commonly seen in forums and blogs. [4]
One of those is the word 番鬼 (pinyin: fānguǐ, Jyutping: faan 1 gwai 2, Hakka GR: fan 1 gui 3, Teochew Peng'im: huang 1 gui 2; loaned into Indonesian as fankui), meaning "foreign ghost" (鬼 means 'ghost' or 'demon'), which is primarily used by Hakka and Mandarin-speaking mainland Chinese and Chinese Indonesians to refer to non-Chinese ...
The word "妖" yao itself carries strong connotations of supernatural power, usually of the kind that runs contrary to the prescribed order of nature or heaven, and "妖术" (lit. "yao technique") means sorcery. In Chinese texts, specific yao 妖 are sometimes referred to as 鬼 (gui, spectre or ghost), 怪 (guai, strange monster), 魔 (mo ...
Cantonese Internet Slang (Chinese: 廣東話網上俗語) is an informal language originating from Internet forums, chat rooms, and other social platforms. It is often adapted with self-created and out-of-tradition forms.
Rooster. Birth years of the Rooster: 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017 Next year of the Rooster: 2029 One can literally and figuratively set their clock by the Rooster, a sign ...
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).