Shanghai China Snippets Observations about living in Shanghai and China in general

The Shanghai government is not very amused with all those new, modern words, mostly abbreviations, that have become part of the online vocabulary of young urban Chinese.

The government plans to “forbid the use of a series of new words and abbreviations made popular on the Internet, from both the schools and official documents,” according to an official statement from Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress.

Terms such as “MM” which refers to “beautiful woman”, and “PK” which means “player kill”, and “Konglong”(dinosaur), which means “ugly girl” are in common usage. These colloquialisms are alleged to infringe the purity of the Chinese language, and therefore should be limited in use, the government says.

In case you like to improve your online Chinese. Here are some words that will keep you communicating, for as long as it is allowed of course.

• “BT” (short for “Bian Tai”) means abnormal
• “Qingwa” (frog) ugly boy
• “GG” (short for “gege”) older brother
• “JJ” (short for “jiejie”) older sister
• “FT” (short for “faint”) faint
• “GF” (short for “girl friend”) girl friend
• “BF” (short for “boy friend”) boy friend
• “Kao” expletive
• “PF” (short for “pei fu”) admire
• “PP” beautiful
• “PLMM” beautiful girl
• “TMD” (short for “ta ma de”) expletive his mother
• “SB” (short for “Sha bi”) expletive
• “SF” (short for “xi huan”) to like
• “88” (pronunciation similar to “bye bye”) bye bye
• “3Q” (pronunciation similar to “thank you”) thank you
• “94” (short for “jiu shi”) that is
• “42” yes
• “PMP” (short for “pai ma pi”) to- bootlick

Source: Interfax China – Shanghai to ban the use of Internet slang …..

Update, some new Chinese Internet Slang

• “520” I love you
• “NB” (short for niúbī) Bull’s dick- Somebody/something is super great
• “5555” (Short for wǔwǔwǔwǔ) Sound of crying