Tell me about cussing in Chinese

[SPJ]

there are many ways to say someone is bad.

1. Guo Jie Lao Shu. the rat walking on the street. nobody likes you and wants to "hit" you with something.

2. Zhou Go. walking dog. a blind follower of a bad leader.

3. Xi Shi Zhou Ro. walking corpse, you have no souls or spirits of your own.

4. Yi Cou Wan Nian. the name stinks ten thousand years. bad name for ever.

5. Ro Zhong Ci. thorn in the flesh. someone hates you so much so as a thorn in the flesh.

6. Yan Zhong Ding. the stick in the eye. same as above.

7. Jiu Ro He Shang. wine drinking/meating eating monk, you are not what you say you are. or you are corrupt to be who or what you are.

8. Hua Xin. flowery heart. like flowers/wimmin or womenizer.

9. Dang Hu. easy lady-- very bad to say about someone.

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[CFT]

SPJ, you've got good vocabulary but they're all too literary to be used for cussin' !!!

[CFT]

Hu li jing -- B!tch (a flirtatious woman)

I somehow thought that "Hu li" was Chinese for "fox" or something. I wonder if the ideas are related.

Yep, "hu li" is Mandarin for fox. "Hu li jing" is a fox spirit; in Chinese mythology there are lots of stories about them seducing innocent young men and causing their ruin. Nowadays, the term is used to refer to mistresses.

BTW, the proper Mandarin term for mistress is "qing fu".

Nide muchin shr ega da wukwei Your mother is a big turtle

Now there's one I'd like to throw around. :lol:

"wugui" is more applicable to men really. Especially since a male pimp is a "gui gong".

There is also the insult: wugui wangba dan which describes a cuckold/s.o.b.

[TenTigers]

http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/cantonese.htm

check out this site-many other languages, including yiddish, and farsi-enjoy!

[SPJ]

Here are a couple more.

1. Wu Ci. have no shame.

2. Bei Bi. so low.

3. Xiao Ren. little people, so selfish.

You have to say them louder or with a strong tone.

literay ones;

1. Bao Can Huo Xin. harbor ill wills.

2. Xiao Li Can Dao. there are knives in your laughters or smiles.

3. Sha Ren Bu Jian xue. murder someone without seeing blood.

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[Mr Punch]

Most of the Japanese ones on the same site are plain wrong or translated wrong, or too polite etc.

For example their translation of kusottare doesn't do the full-on 'dripping sh!t' meaning justice!

Just lemme know if you want any more!

[Wong Ying Home]

Ju Pah (jew pah) ...pork chop..ugly bird..ugly girl
Ba Ji Geurk - Legs open girl

[-N-]

Ok, some in Cantonese... not too bad.

gow see gwun - stir shiat stick, the stick that's used to mix up shiat with rice chaff before it's hauled off by the fertilizer guys. Means the same in English as in Chinese... "shiat stirrer". Use it on the next KFO troll

sei bat poh - dead biatch. Put the word "sei" in front of whatever when you're really pizzed. Equivalent to when we say "effin" or "d@mn" in English.

nei lo mo - "your mother".

fan tung - "rice container/bucket" Used to describe a lame azz slacker who who only knows how to eat.

chun jue - "stupid pig"

fei jue - "fat pig"

ngau no - "cow brain"

chi seen - "crazy"

[Phil Redmond]

. . . . . I somehow thought that "Hu li" was Chinese for "fox" or something. I wonder if the ideas are related. . . . . ~~Jules

In Mandarin there are four tones. Cantonese has seven. One word can be said in seven different 'muscial' tones and have completely different meanings. For instance. Haih is the verb, 'to be'. Hai can also mean a female sexual organ. The letter 'h' in the verb 'to be' to notates that the sound is a low tone. So if you dont' say a word in the correct tone you can end up saying something really bad.
Phil

[Jules]

In Mandarin there are four tones. Cantonese has seven. One word can be said in seven different 'muscial' tones and have completely different meanings. For instance. Haih is the verb, 'to be'. Hai can also mean a female sexual organ. The letter 'h' in the verb 'to be' to notates that the sound is a low tone. So if you dont' say a word in the correct tone you can end up saying something really bad.
Phil

That's very confusing! It's actually the same way in Hawaiian. A misplaced accent, however slight, can change an inocuous phrase into something unexpected (and usually sexual.)

I wish that there was all the time in the world to learn Cantonese and Mandarin. I understand that they are some of the hardest languages to learn.

~~J

[SimonM]

Putonghua is much easier to learn than French.

I studied French for 5 years in school. I have been learning Putonghua for seven months.

I am much more able to communicate in Putonghua than in French.

Also (oddly) I find that often when I try to speak French these days Putonghua will start coming out. I'll have to pause, think for a second and then re-speak in french.

The number of times I've said Duei when I meant to say Oui...

[SimonM]

Totally true.

[MasterKiller]

Cao ne zu zhou shi ba dai!

[MasterKiller]

I wish that there was all the time in the world to learn Cantonese and Mandarin.

I commute 45 minutes to work. I was thinking about getting this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/189...Fencoding=UTF8

[SimonM]

The Pimmsler introduction to to Mandarin is a good CD set. No swearing though.