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Mandarin ( / ˈmændərɪn / ⓘ MAN-dər-in; simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; lit. 'officials' speech') is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Standard Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional...
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Overseas Chinese (simplified Chinese: 海外华人 / 海外中国人;...
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Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu...
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Cantonese (traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese:...
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Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized...
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Distribution of Chinese dialect groups within the Greater...
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Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango (Japanese: 漢語, pronounced, "Han words"), is that subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese. Some grammatical structures and sentence patterns can also be identified as Sino-Japanese.
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Penis
As in English, many Mandarin Chinese slang terms involve the genitalia or other sexual terms. Slang words for the penis refer to it literally, and are not necessarily negative words: 1. jībā (Chinese: 雞巴/鷄巴, IM abbreviation: J8/G8) = cock (used as early as the Yuan Dynasty), also written 𣬠𣬶 2. jījī (雞雞/鷄鷄, IM: JJ/GG) = roughly equivalent of "thingy" as it is the childish version of the above. 3. jūju (具具), baby talk, "tool". 4. xiǎo dìdi (小弟弟) = roughly equivalent of "wee-wee" (lit. "little...
Vagina
There appear to be more words for vagina than for penis. The former are more commonly used as insults and are also more aggressive and have negative connotations: 1. bī (屄, 逼, 比, IM: B) = cunt (often used as an interjection instead of a noun) 2. jībái (Chinese: 雞白) = cunt (Taiwanese Mandarin, near-homophone of Hokkien profanity chi-bai) 3. xiǎomèimei (小妹妹) = pussy (lit. "little younger sister", see. xiaodidi above) 4. bàoyú (鮑魚) = pussy (lit. "abalone" due to its flesh having a superficial re...
Brothel frequenter
1. yín chóng (淫蟲) literally, lewd worms. Men who enjoy frequent sex with women. 2. lǎo piáo (老嫖) literally, old frequenter of prostitutes. There is actually a verb for frequenting prostitutes in Chinese.
As in English, a vulgar word for the sexual act is used in insults and expletives: 1. cào (肏) = fuck (the variant character 肏 was in use as early as the Ming dynasty in the novel Jin Ping Mei). 操 is often used as a substitute for 肏in print or on the computer, because 肏 was until recently often not available for typesetting or input. 2. cào nǐ zǔzōn...
Mandarin Chinese has specific terms and racial euphemisms for different ethno-racial groups around the world, and some discriminatory slurs against Chinese representatives from certain governments and backgrounds.
There are various circumlocutions in Mandarin Chinese for homosexual, and the formal terms are recent additions just as is the direct translation of "masturbation" (hand soiling). The words listed below are generally not regarded as being profane. Duànxiù (Chinese: 斷袖) — cut off sleeve, from the story of a ruler whose male favourite fell asleep on ...
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Mandarin Chinese, [2] or simply Mandarin, ( / ˈmændərɪn / ( listen); simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally: "speech of officials") is the language of government and education of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, with the notable exceptions of Hong Kong and Macau where a local dialect of Chinese called Cantone...
- 955 million (2010)
- Most of Northern and Southwestern China, (see also Standard Chinese)
During the reign of the Jin (1115-1234) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, a common language, known as Old Mandarin began to emerge in northern China. It was used in literature, along Classical/Literary Chinese, and written with either the Chinese script, or the 'Phags-pa script. Mandarin, in some form or another, has been used as the lingua ...
Since kanji are essentially Chinese hanzi used to write Japanese, the majority of characters used in modern Japanese still retain their Chinese meaning, physical resemblance with some of their modern traditional Chinese characters counterparts, and a degree of similarity with Classical Chinese pronunciation imported to Japan from the 5th to 9th ...