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From Christopher Doyle’s “Buenos Aires,” his photo diary from his time on the set of Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Together. (source)

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CHINESE SLANG & ABBREVIATIONS

**Large part of this list is thanks to @/caerium on twitter for posting some common slang & terms used by Chinese netizens. For a link to their twitter, click here.

+ no pinyin sorry… i thought it might be too confusing

LOVE

cp: couple / ship

tla: dating (谈恋爱)

zqsg: true love (真情实感)

同志: gay person (lit. comrade)

xql: sweethearts (小情侣)

cdx: getting a boyfriend / girlfriend

FANDOM / SOCIAL MEDIA

up / dd / 顶: bump

lz: op (original poster) (楼主)

bp: fans who don’t spend money (白嫖)

pyq: wechat “friend’s circle” or “moments” where you share pictures or posts (朋友圈)

腐女：girls who like bl (boy love) things (lit. rotten woman)

磕: ship it / like it

车: smut (sometimes indicated by a car emoji 🚗)(lit. car)

mz: liking a post in a millisecond (秒赞）

ch: supertopic (超话) (weibo)

sj: someone is secretly following someone else’s weibo / hot topic / etc (视奸)

TERMS OF ADDRESS

jmm / xjm / xjj / xgg: 姐妹们 / 小姐们 / 小姐姐 / 小哥哥 cutesy honorific titles for men & women around the same age as you (lit . older / younger / little sister or brother) (use respectively: 姐: older sister 妹: younger sister 哥: older brother)

宝宝 / 宝贝: baby

公举: princess

老铁: bro, homie

p: photoshop / femme lesbian (stands for pretty /婆 wife)

t: butch lesbian (stands for tomboy / 铁 iron or 老铁 bro)

NUMBERS

666: awesome

555: crying noise boo hoo (呜呜呜)

(5)14: (I) want death (我)要死

no I / 我 = no 5

914: almost dead (就要死)

56: bored (无聊)

5366: I want to chat (我想聊聊)

995: save me (救救我)

520: I love you (我爱你)

918: jiayou 加油吧 (form of encouragement: come on! you can do it! fighting) (lit. add oil)

246: starving (饿死了)

0487: you are an idiot (你是白痴)

36: bitch

250: idiot

530: I miss you (我想你)

88: bye bye (拜拜)

INSULTS

绿茶婊: girl who pretends to be innocent but is really pretentious; basic bitch (lit. green tea bitch)

卖萌: pretending to be cute

土: basic (lit. dirt)

二货: idiot

xxj: childish person (小学鸡）

装b: cocky, pretending to be something you’re not (my dictionary says pretentious prick haha)

sjb: crazy person (神经病)

REALLY / “TO DEATH”

rxl: heart is really tired (really心累)

rsx: really broken hearted (really份心)

xsml: super envious (羡慕死了) (lit. envious to death)

rnb: really awesome or impressive (really牛b)

tcl: really unfortunate (太惨了)

qswl: really mad (气死我了)(lit. mad to death)

xs(w)l: lmao (lit. laugh to death) (笑死(我)了)

no 我 = no “w”

ETC

dbq: sorry (对不起)

dbqdrl: sorry i am intruding (on something) (对不起打扰了）

bhys: sorry (不好意思）

sk: happy birthday (生快 / 生日快乐）

bml: don’t speak bad of / don’t make fun of (别骂了)

wsl: I died (我死了)

bzd: don’t know (不知道)

ky: saying nonsense (胡说)

nbcs: nobody cares

瓜: gossip

算了: forget it (something is impossible… used in break ups sometimes too)

没门儿: no way, not a chance

什么鬼: what the heck

szd: it is real (是真的）

nsdd: you’re right (你说的对）

ttl: too sweet (太甜了)

可: ok / agree

無 / 无: none / no one

锺 / 石锺: proven

没毛病: no problem

萌: cute

酷: cool

feel free to add on it let me know if I made any mistakes!!