Glossar

A片

A piān

Adult video/film, pornographic video

加油

jiā yóu

Literally: add gasoline, used as an encouragement like "you can do it!"

卷

juǎn

To overwork or hustle too hard

变态 (BT)

biàn tài

Perverted, deviant, abnormal.

吃土

chī tǔ

Literally: Eating dirt, used to express someone is totally broke

吃瓜

chī guā

Literally: Eating melon, means to gossip

处女 (CN)

chǔ nǚ

Virgin girl. For boys, it is 处男, chǔnán

屌丝

diào sī

Roughly “loser” or maybe “douchebag” when used negatively but often is used humorously. First used as insult, later used as self description of someone who is proud of ones life and accepted the fact to no be extraordinary

我懒得

wǒ lǎn dé

Means "i can’t be bothered" or "i don't care"

打酱油

dǎ jiàng yóu

Literally: buy soy sauce, a random by passer was interviewed by ecstatic Olympia reporters in 2008 and replied "I just bought some soy sauce" while walking away. Used as "i don't give a shit"

撩

liāo

Slang for "flirting"

杯具

bēi jù

"Cups" or "cupware" is a pun for "tragedy".

查水表

chá shuǐ biǎo

Literally "to check the water meter". Often used in responses to posts or comments that may be considered subversive or "inharmonious" by the government

标题党

biāo tí dǎng

Refers to misleading article headlines or post titles.

棒子

bàng zi

An ethnic slur for Korean people. Literally means "club" or "stick".

河蟹

hé xiè

Literally: River crab, but it sounds like harmony and refers to internet filters, or the act that something wars removed "harmonized"

版主 (BZ)

bǎn zhǔ

Moderator of an internet discussion forum.

牛逼

niú bī

The word for a cows vagina, used as a compliment that someone is outstandingly awesome. Street slang like in: "Fucking awesome"

玻璃

bō li

On the Chinese internet, "glass" is sometimes slang for "male homosexual" because it is a variant of "BL" which means "boys love".

白富美

bái fù měi

White, rich, and beautiful. A popular internet meme referring to the ideal girlfriend or wife in contemporary Chinese society

矮丑穷

ǎi chǒu qióng

Short, ugly, and poor. A popular internet meme referring to the non-ideal boyfriend or husband

蛋疼

dàn téng

Ball ache. Testicle ache. Usually refers to doing something extremely unreasonable or ridiculous out of boredom or having nothing better to do.

被自杀

bèi zì shā

Literally "to be suicided", referring to a death that has been ruled a suicide to cover up a murder.

鄙视 (BS)

bǐ shì

Although this is sometimes BS like the English "bullshit", usually it is used to mean "despise".