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monto -

火星文：
A set of jargons Chinese youngsters use on the net, a mixture of letters, numbers, symbols, and
characters or parts of characters of Chinese, Japanese and Korean.



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roddy -

I came across that one recently too, in 炙手可热.










atitarev -

I have to say this.

Perhaps you know the "Chinese" soup called 罗宋汤, beetroot and cabbage are some of the main
ingredients. It sounds like [Luósòng tāng], which is "Russian soup" or "borshch".

The normal word for Russia is 俄罗斯 [Éluósī] but in this particular case, it's a
transliteration from the English (音译) "Russian". The Russian words for Russian and Russia are
quite different: русский (russky) ("u" as in "put", not "but"!), Россия (Rossiya).

There is a Chinese word borrowed from Russian: хлеб (khleb or khlyeb) -> 列巴 (lièbā) -
"bread". It's used in Harbin, Dalian and some other North-Eastern Chinese cities.










rob07 -

佞人 (ning4ren2), sycophant.










rob07 -

I like this one - 丘八 qiu1ba1, soldier. Individually the characters mean "hillock" and "eight",
but together they mean soldier because together they look like 兵.










imron -

It's worth noting though that this is a derogatory term for solider.










Lu -

Here they say 阿兵哥 a1bing1ge1 for soldier (not derogatory as far as I can tell).

New word I came across yesterday: what is 九兆萬 (also written 九萬兆)? I started counting
zeroes, but it does not mean 90 quadrillion. No, some journalist was too creative, and coined this
word for Ma Yingjiu, his vice-president Xiao Wanchang, and his premier Liu Zhaoxuan.










roddy -

荷尔蒙, héěrméng, loan word for hormone, which is more often 激素










rob07 -

笄之年 (ji1 zhi1 nian2) - an old term for the time at which a girl comes of age. The 笄 was a
type of hairpin which was used to tie up an adult woman's hair and started to be used at the
earlier of her turning 15 or getting engaged to be married.










randall_flagg -

so what is the difference between 炙 and 燔 both mentioned in this thread.

鱼饵 yu2er3, fishing bait (the stuff you put on the hook)












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