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Looking for any references here:

North-eastern Mandarin has the word xier (perhaps: xuer) usage is same as:

太棒了

i.e.: 太xier了

As usual everyone thinks that it cannot be written & that there is no character for it.

So please any references to this word / character are requested.

edit: I did come across this:

血，读作 xie3，非常、十分的意思，与胶东东部方言对应词汇的发音、含义完全相同

on wikipedia - perhaps it is 太血儿了.

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    Would you like to give me the concrete context in which this xier is used? – Shudong Nov 17 '16 at 5:12
  • I'm looking for - a dictionary entry - written usage - some sort of concrete reference to this word from paper. – Mou某♦ Nov 17 '16 at 5:23
  • I am from north-eastern, xier is not used in all north-eastern, only some area, ex. 大连, maybe some areas in 吉林 and 黑龙江 also use it. – wolfrevo Mar 19 '17 at 13:10
  • @wolfrevo any idea how to write it? – Mou某♦ Mar 19 '17 at 13:37
  • Just 血, no 儿. It is very rare in writings even for these used in talking. btw, there is another character, 尿(means fantastic, brave), I don't know why there are many wild word in daily use. It is not a good idea for me to use these character this way. – wolfrevo Mar 19 '17 at 14:50
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Could the word be 玄 （xuán)? In Beijing, it means "improbable" or "unbelievable", "out there". If spoken with a Beijing "er" attached, it sounds like xuán-er.

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I asked a friend who is from NE China (一位来自沈阳人) about 太xie了 and they came up with this: 太邪了 (tai4xie2le5).

邪 means "demonic, nefarious" but in 太邪了 I think it means "good" as in supernaturally, uncannily good (I think the English words "wonderful" and "fantastic" are related to this in some etymological/semantic manner). The friend didn't think 太血了 was correct.

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  • That is because 沈阳人 do not use 血. So she/he confused with 邪. – Jacob Sep 18 '17 at 17:53
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This use case of 血 does not apply to north-eastern mandarin, which is referred as 东北话. It's in fact a word in 大连(Da Lian)话. Dalian is a city in Liaoning Province, but 大连话 is really different from 东北话. It's similar to the dialect of 胶东(Jiao Dong), which is a part of Shandong Province.

血 here means very, not awesome. It's more an adverb than an adjective.

Example: 血彪, which means 很傻, is commonly used in 大连话.

For more reference, you may search for 大连话 and ctrl+f for 血.

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  • So what in 大连(Da Lian)话 that sounds like xier means awesome then? – Mou某♦ Jan 17 '17 at 15:50
  • @user3306356 idk. – hpwsue Jan 17 '17 at 16:08
  • how about shir? – Mou某♦ Jan 17 '17 at 16:23
  • @user3306356 Nah. – hpwsue Jan 18 '17 at 7:10
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I think only 血(xie3), no postfix 儿(er).

血(xie3) in north-eastern China means 非常/很(very), and is always followed by an adjective (usually presents bad things).

血亏: 亏 means 亏损/损失(loss) 这趟生意真是血亏 a great loss in the business

In the next example, 血 means 十足的/尽全力的(plenty of, make best effort)

下血本: 下 means 投入(invest)， 本 means 本钱（capital, not always money）

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