Chinese Internet Slang

Chinese Internet slang is informal language coined to express ideas on the Chinese Internet in response to events, the influence of the mass media and foreign culture, and the desire of people to simplify and update the Chinese language. Slang that first appears on the net is often adopted to become current in everyday life. It includes content relating to all aspects of life — social, mass media, economic, and political etc. Internet slang is arguably the fastest changing aspect of the language, created by a number of different influences — technology (the means used to input and send messages), mass media and foreign culture amongst others.

Categories

The categories given below to distinguish the different kinds of Chinese internet slang are not exclusive. Some phrases may belong in more than one category.

Numbers, representing Chinese words (数字表示汉字 shùzì biǎoshì hànzì)

Latin alphabet abbreviations (字母縮寫 zìmǔ suōxiě)

Chinese users commonly use a QWERTY keyboard with pinyin enabled. Upper case letters are quick to type and require no transformation. (Lower case letters spell words which are changed into Chinese characters). Latin alphabet abbreviations (rather than Chinese characters) are also sometimes used to evade censorship.[2]

Chinese abbreviations (汉字縮读 Hànzì suōdú)

Chinese contractions (简写 jiǎnxiě)

New expressions 新网络词 (xīn wǎngluò cí)

Phrases with altered or extended meanings (短语与改变或扩展的意义 duǎnyǔ yǔ gǎibiàn huò kuòzhǎn de yìyì)

Puns and wordplay (双关语 shuāngguān yǔ, 发音相似 fāyīn xiāngsì)

Slang derived from English (英语翻译 Yīngyǔ fānyì)

Slang derived from Japanese (日语翻译 Rìyǔ fānyì)

Slang derived from Taiwanese Hokkien (台語翻译 Táiyǔ fānyì)

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