Questions tagged [swearing]
For questions about usage of profanities and offensive language.
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How common is it for Chinese profanity to appear in contexts where they aren't considered profanity at all?
I am working on some software that is supposed to censor obscene and abusive language, where the list of obscene and abusive words is provided by the customer. It needs to work in a variety of ...
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Can I call my game 三棋 Sān Qí?
I have created a board game based on the epic 'Three Kingdoms' by Luo Guanzhong. I can't call it 'Three Kingdoms' because there are too many games called that. I want to call it Sān Qí 三棋 because it ...
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Is 撒币 a proper Chinese word?
Occasionally one sees the word 撒币 in modern media and google translate translated it as "Sprinkle coins", which I think is inaccurate: does it not mean "to squander"? I failed to find this word "撒币" ...
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Curious about different ways of swearing in Mandarin
I'm not sure if this is considered an appropriate conversation or question but I've had conversations with Cantonese speakers before who've mentioned that it's so easy to swear in Cantonese, but there ...
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Is the word 懵逼 dirty?
懵逼 is easily construed as dirty with it's 逼 suffix. I cannot, for certain, tell if 逼 is a substitute for 屄 or not.
Baidu Baike gives no indication that it's a curse word.
But 懵X brings up almost ...
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Is the Chinese character "蒙" being associated with Mongolia and ignorance coincidence?
In the translingual section, Wiktionary mentions that the Chinese character 蒙 has a variety of meanings:
to cover
ignorant
suffer
fourth hexagram of the I Ching
Mongolia - radical composition becomes ...
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Accidentally Saying Chinese Swear Words
So I saw a video on youtube about a guys experience in china. He said that people can often accidentally say swear words if they say the tones wrong. Like the word "ma"
It can heard as mother but 'ma'...
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How to pronounce the “的” in “他妈的”?
How usually native chinese speaker pronounce the “的” orally in “他妈的”? Is it "Ta Ma De" or "Ta Ma Di"?
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娘炮 - how do you pronounce this word/phrase?
娘 is clearly niang2, but 炮 is a multiple pronunciation character; it can be bao1 or pao2 or pao4 according to the dictionaries I consulted. I tried searching Baidu for "娘炮拼音" but didn't find anything. ...
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How do I say "damn!" or "bloody hell" in Chinese?
The phrase 他妈的 has been explained in this question. Since I'm a no-expletives guy, I don't feel comfortable so close to the f-word. :) I was wondering what would be the correct way to use some of the ...
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How offensive is 他妈的?
How offensive is the expression 他妈的? What is an English expression with a similar degree of offensiveness? In what situations is this expression appropriate / not appropriate?
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