20 Chinese Slang You Need to Know | Chinese Popular Slang
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20 Chinese Slang You Need to Know | Chinese Popular Slang
After you learn Chinese from your teacher and textbooks, sometimes do you still get confused when you listen to Chinese? In daily life, we use some slang words and phrases to express things. It’s quite hard for Chinese language learners to catch up.
In this video, you will learn 20 Chinese slang words or phrases that we frequently use in our daily life. This will definitely help you understand Chinese native speakers more and help you sound more like a native speaker!
⚡️The time codes of 20 Chinese slang:
00:32 三分鐘熱度（三分钟热度）three-minute heat
01:10 潑冷水（泼冷水）splash cold water
01:40 吐槽 to criticize, tease or ridicule
02:16 烏鴉嘴（乌鸦嘴）crow’s mouth
03:06 學霸（学霸）straight-A student
03:40 宅男 / 宅女 homebody
04:07 追劇 binge-watching
04:29 臨時抱佛腳 to hug Buddha’s feet in times of emergency
05:12 顏值 Face score
05:42 算了 forget it
06:21 正能量 / 負能量 positive energy / negative energy
07:02 菜鳥 vegetable bird
07:32 放鴿子 release a pigeon
08:16 （是 / 不是）sb. 的菜 (to be / to be not) sb’s type
09:00 吃土 to eat soil
09:51 左耳進右耳出 to go in one ear and out the other
10:54 吃貨 foodaholic
11:40 低頭族 people who lower their heads and look at their phones all the time
12:11 外貌協會（外貌协会）appearance association
12:50 抱sb.的大腿 to hug sb’s thigh
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I'm already chinese, why am I watching this. Nice vid btw.
你想教我嗎？ 😅
@@jefferson1684 lol sure I'm bad at teaching tho
@@NuttyTY0 what is ur instagram?
@@jefferson1684 sorry man, I don't use instagram
I think she is a female god.
You're the best Chinese teacher I've ever seen and I wish you were my teacher in real life. I love how you display both the traditional and simplified characters
英卡爾Karl Awww thank you for your kind words! I feel honored! Because I use traditional characters in daily life, but I know many students want to learn simplified ones so I display them both :D
I worked in Taiwan before so I also want to learn both. 哈哈😄。
I really like that you use pinyin, traditional characters and simplified characters, you cover all bases! And using clips from TV shows/songs is also a nice touch. Plus I only knew 3/20 of these, so lots of new words for me, some of them are quite funny too like eating dirt. Of course one of the ones I knew is '算了', I hear that all the time when talking to Chinese people in Mandarin and there's a breakdown in communication!
try thisua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
May i ask what the only 3 you knew were?
I really appreciate how you translate one word at a time and go slowly through the sentences. That helps me understand the structure and how some words change in meaning when combined with other ones.
谢谢
Which Chinese slang do you find it most interesting? 😄
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Correction:
04:29 佛 should be pronounced as “fó”, I mispronounced it as “fóu”. (Sorry for the mispronunciation)
07:20 還 “hái"
我抱你的大腿。
@@vuanemviethancom 大哥带我躺赢吧 真想爬梯子上
I think they're all interesting because of the meanings behind the words & how they are used in chinese but Chi hou is one of my favorites beacause I love food😄🍔🍝🍜🍲🚶🏃👀👃 as well as zheng neng liang because that's what the world needs more of🙏
Deonte Sampson I love food too haha! Glad you like these slang words and phrases :D
臨時抱好較
你举得例句有点问题。比如“她总喜欢吐槽”“他总是泼冷水”，这些句子举了等于没举，因为都没通过语境更好地展现这个phrase的准确意思。更好的例句比如，“我刚想出来一个商业计划，就被他泼了冷水”（通过例句就能加深理解，泼冷水可以用于否定一个想法的前景）；或者“她部门有一个吹毛求疵的女上司，她每天都跟我吐槽”（也就知道吐槽是指倾诉一些烦人又通常难以逃脱的小事）
同意你说的 顶你上去
这个老师是我在UA-cam目前为止看到教中文的老师中，教的最好，最准确的！
This teacher is the best ever to give mandarin classes on UA-cam ! She tells the truth!
Cette prof est la meilleure à donner des cours de mandarin sur UA-cam! Elle dit la vérité!
-From a native speaker
Yok Knnn 謝謝你！（谢谢你！）
I love how the first slang called me out. Short-lived enthusiasm about something is why I have a million hobbies.
The current hobby is learning Chinese of course!
Thank you for fuelling my 三分钟热度 with your video!
On the other hand, I'm here to learn how to translate Chinese slang into English.
Lol😂😂
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I really love your way of explaining .Your videos help me a lot to improve my speaking skill.Thank you xo much .太谢谢你了
我今天才發現你的頻道。我好喜歡你的視頻！你解釋得很清楚。我被拉動又學起中文了~
For those who don’t understand why 菜鸟means greenhorn. 菜 itself is a slang meaning very inexperienced or unskilled. I guess it’s because veggies are normally soft. 鸟is also a slang for male genital, which implies a person. So 菜鸟together means an inexperienced person
This video is amazing, this will definiety help with my writing and speaking in school! 多谢了!
Grace老師的顏值非常高，我看了之後有很多正能量
love your videos Grace!! they are very comprehensive and actually useful! You have a gift for teaching
Fab video ! Thanks very much, love your channel !
哈哈哈，我也要好好看看，有时候还真不知道怎么给老外解释一些词
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Ok bro 👍 campeón
我怎么听””老外”这个词感觉你在骂我们呢，。 比如还是一个人愤怒的说诶老外过来这边，， 听起来感觉他在歧视， 还有在我脑子里想，因为我也是学中文是吧，那么有的时候看汉子会把它分开起或者很仔细的看好它那几个字造成的，，在举个例子啊，，， 老………外，， 感觉就把我们当成一直在房子里的外边似的， 这个人是不是老一直在外呢哈哈哈 ，真的我感觉这个词把我们从中国退出去似的，， 最后我是想说个非常深刻的一个道理啊， 那就是很多国家本来是空空的像美国一开始只有几个民族慢慢就有了白人黑人黄人等就把这个地方当成自己的家后来因为为了安全方面而变成国， 像中国50多个名族如果是慢慢的去了解他们的来源也应该是外地很多都是， 咱们2021年的现在我觉得应该中国尤其是年轻人去想包容像美国西方国家还有很多国家如果某某人在比如加拿大带了点时间有顺利的学到那边的语言或者文化而且很和谐的和他们生活那就有资格拿那里的户口， 那么中国呢我觉得也就应该对这件事也开放起，因为有很多已经爱上中国爱上中国文化，晚上都做梦用汉语去做梦😄 希望这个词慢慢的消失，或代替用其他词汇量， 比如外国友人，国际朋友，”“你好” ”请问” 不说外国也更好，因为咱们还是同一个人类，世界人民，有五只手，
@@copypaste9067 老字表示尊敬，比如老师，老板，老大等。
也可以表示亲近，比如老哥，老李等
所以，喊老外就是在表示友好啊！
李可 解释的很好， 但你不觉得在一些场合这个词意思喊已经稍微有变化了，在词典里没变但人民用的时候是指别的意思， 像我的那些中国朋友们从来不喊我老外， 但比如我和一些员工在一起然后我走了之后他们就开始说我坏话也就会用到这个词就是有仇恨的感觉
不知道为什么YT推荐这个视频给我，但是真的学到很多英语的地道表达，哈哈
i really want to learn chinese and i’m rlly glad that i found your channel! i love the way you teach us chinese! 🥺
Thank you for this!! Best informational video I've watched yet!
As a Chinese, I'm here learning how to say these "Chinese slangs" in English which makes me sounds like a native speaker
This helped a lot
THANK YOUUUU
Thank You sister, your videos help a lot.
Thank you so much
Excellent video. The way you show and explain different concepts is very clear! Thanks a lot😉
Like your channel, very useful
This topic is so fascinating! Hope that you make more videos like this!!!
thank you so much for this video! putting both traditional and simplified characters and then going over each of the words in the sentence was extremely helpful!
Try this ua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
Even though I am oversea Chinese but living in the non Chinese speaking family for daily , your channel helps me a lot ! I just found out about this channel and gonna do the exploration and study well ! Thanks Grace
This is my first time watching one of your videos that is older. Your English pronunciation is getting better and better! I can always understand you but it's even easier in your newer videos. Thank you for being my UA-cam teacher!
Great channel! I like the way you explain
Thanks for all these wonderful expressions! Love them！More please!
I really enjoyed your vid thank you : )
谢谢你。视频有很多有意思的东西。
Grace好可爱啊！我不需要学中文，但是我很喜欢看你的视频~
HI :) I'm a university student and my major is Chinese. I'm a freshman also I hadn't learnt Chinese before. Lately, I started to study Chiense and it is really fun(of coursely, it is little hard too hahaha)! I made a chinese friend and whenever I talked to her, I thought I want to learn about some slangs of China. But since I found your channel, I can speak many slangs thanks to you! So, not only talking to my friend but I can improve my chinese. I think this is a purpose why you made your channel. I'm really appreciate to you. I subscribed you hahaha :D 老师，谢谢！
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Very interesting and useful lesson . Thank you Teaacher
Wou such a hard work you are putting in, the video is great and surely useful! If you have time I hope you'll make more videos with local Taiwanese expressions and idioms! :)
你辛苦了！！！
Thank you! I'll note down your suggestion! ;)
Gatis, should be written as 辛苦你了
@@seebauong9593 你幸苦了 also works, I don't see any problems with that
Great channel! I’m learning a lot. You rock, girl!
好玩！好好的影片
我沒有聽過『吃土』，但是有聽過『吃西北風』。
還有，我沒聽過『吃貨』但是有聽過『飯桶』.
而且像其他人說的，謝謝妳繁體字和簡體字都用。
I find this veeeeerryyyy useful ❤️ 谢谢
Try this ua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
such a great job, explaining and giving examples.. THANK YOU!
Your video is always helpful. Thanks a alot
From VietNam
关注了你的帐号，视频内容真的有用！Grace小姐姐讲得挺好的！看完之后学到了不少中国人在日常生活中常常会用到的中文句子！我下次说一下一句让我中国朋友吃惊 ！😅
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This is the first time I watch your video clip and frankly speaking your explanation had me great
Impression on me.👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
Very much look forward to watching other video clips as soon as possible.
Wish you reach 200K subscribers soon.
So glad I discovered this channel omg.
You are so nice!!! Thank you very much for this video! I just found your channel and I love it!! Thank U!!!!!!
Maritalia Brasil - Mariana Cristina Hi Maritalia! Thank you! So glad to have you here!
Grace Mandarin Chinese 我也很高兴！你又漂亮又聪明怎么厉害啊👍🏼！
This channel is so great, and you're an absolute gem. 谢谢你 Grace!
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I really enjoy your lessons its very easy to learn and fun!😂❤
Much Respect to you taking time to teach us miss grace , your a pretty lady by the way 🤘🏼👍🏼
因为这个影片，我每天听 吃土！！谢谢你！
Good job on trying on trying to tackle the translation. Below is my suggestion.
潑冷水- Rain on someone's parade
吐槽- Roast. To give someone a hard time.
宅男 / 宅女- Geek or Nerd
吃貨- Foodie
抱sb.的大腿- Gain someone's favor
I like how you add the videos, keep doing that . It's real life experiences
3:41 宅男 or 宅女在英语里其实有一个更确切的词是“NEET”，这里的“宅”并不是指在家里，而是“依赖家里”的意思，含有贬低意味。
Something to keep in mind is that 吐槽 and 泼冷水 are usually neutral words. 吐槽 commonly criticize for comedic purposes now, I think this new meaning comes from Japanese comedic animes which include a lot of 吐槽.
泼冷水 commonly used by the one doing 泼冷水 and doesn't mean anything negative. An example would be, 我必须给你泼一盆冷水, meaning "I have to calm you down". This is used when you think a person got over-optimistic or over-confident about something uncertain.
"Reality check" might be an appropriate translation
吐槽 actually is a Taiwanese expression。
Thank you so much! Especially helpful that you include video examples.
very insightful. Thanks
Great video! Very good explanation!
Hi Grace! Thank you so much for making these videos, they're fun and interesting :) I wanted to know if you could let me know the names of some of the movies (or TV shows) from which you used clips to demonstrate an example. Or perhaps had any recommendations on easy Mandarin Chinese movies to watch? Thanks again and hope you had a great weekend :D
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Thanks, Learn a lot
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Lol I love how it's just in my reccomendings. I'm a Chinese but Im in the US rn, just in case if u guys don't know Chinese, when she says "shi" thats just "is". Also Grace your voice when speaking English AND Chinese is EXACTLY same as my friend's!!! Also 5:06 这个男生演的《不可思议的爱情》很好看！！推荐看一下！但sb是somebody真的太出戏了哈哈哈，口音还是有点重喔~~ITS VERY ACCURATE :) as a Chinese person I can say that
Esse vídeo é demais! 我是巴西人。 我学汉语。你说话都懂了。 谢谢。
太有用了，谢谢老师！
Omg this is so precious, thank you very much ah beautiful jiejie!
Great videos Grace! I'm gonna try using these
Domlr - 陸東明 Thank you! Btw I’ve watched your video before! 😄
I just started learning Chinese. Your vedios are very interesting.
These are actually really great.
It's very helpful with the video examples of it being used. 👍👍👍
Thank you!!
謝謝🙏我是學生，我學習中文所以這很有幫助！
蘭林 不客氣！很高興能幫到你 ;)
Me native Chinese
“20 Chinese Slang You Need to Know | Chinese Popular Slang”
*clicks
to check if i know these slangs which I certainly did.
Jessie Y I am native chinese but the 60% of these slangs I don’t know them 😂😂
@@chiahow 哈哈哈 不至于吧 有些使用不频繁 但大都蛮日常的吧
Cool stuff 😁 Not the typical standard Video about mandarin. I always thought its called "Home Buddy" hahahaha. Great Content!
What a great video! Thank you for this! :)
宅男/宅女 is Japanese origin, otaku御宅, changed from the meaning of anime/manga/game/cosplay/... fans/maniacs to meaning of a person who likes to stay home rather than going outside
Ben Liu really? I thought it was 宅子的宅. 宅子 means hut so...
Angela Yue I'm sure with this one. 宅 was originally used within ACG community in China which had the same meaning as otaku in Japanese. Only in recent years it became a common word to describe someone likes to stay home or just the action of staying home (with neutral meaning).
Ben Liu woahhhhhhh cool I get to learn something new everyday. Thanks for explaining, I was honestly confused. Thank you for the new piece of knowledge :D
the meaning of 宅男 depends on your look. If you are handsome, then it means homebody. If you are ugly, then you are a nerd.
This is amazing! Thank you so much!!
Nisa - No problem 💛 不客氣！
This great stuff to know and you can’t get this from books (at least any books I’m aware of.) Thanks for putting so much effort in your videos. It’s very helpful for me in my Chinese learning.
thanks it was really helpful for me , after speaking boring chinese i really need some more interesting words to express my feelings.. 感谢你美女
I will implement these in Anki and learn all of these. Thanks so much 🦊
1 三分中热度 ：short-lived enthusiasm
2 泼冷水 ：to make disparaging comments, ruin someone's mood
3 吐槽 ：to criticize, ridicule, tease
4 乌鸦嘴 ：(别乌鸦嘴；don't jinx it)
5 学霸 ：straight-A student
6 宅男/宅女 ： homebody
7 追剧 ： binge-watch
8 临时抱佛脚 ：do things at the last minute, cramming for something
9 颜值 ： face score （他颜值很高：good looking）
10 算了 ： whatever， i don't care anymore
11 正能量/负能量 ： positive/negative energy
12 菜鸟 ：rookie
13 放鸽子 ： stand someone up
14 是/不是 somebody’s 菜 （is/is not someone’s type）
15 吃土 ：broke，low on money
16 左耳进右耳出 ： go in one ear n out the other
17 吃货 ：foodie
18 低头族 ：people who lower their heads n always look at their phones
19 外貌协会 ： people who only care about appearances
20 抱 somebody’s 大腿 ： to get close to somebody to benefit of someone's success
omg thank you so much
谢谢 Grace 老师！
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I'm sorry but... what is the name of that song? 😆 8:52 I need to see the whole MV now!
Enjoying your each and every videos . Big fan from Nepal ♥️♥️
i like this video
i wait next video
Hi thanks so much that's super helpful. Can you please do more slang explaining videos in the future? Cuz slangs are changing everyday and it's hard to keep up. Thank you so much 🙏🙏 Subbed
Great one ❤
I love u beautiful teacher!!!😘😘😘I learned alot from u today!!!keep it up🤜🤛👍👍👍greetings from Philippines.😘
I really like your video ❤️❤️
Grace is the best teacher! Better than apps
Guo 老师好 . 祝您和家庭圣诞节快乐 ! Thank you for teaching us these useful slangs.
Chen Jun Guang 哈囉！聖誕節快樂！:) and you’re welcome;)
Thank you
The topic is interesting ,need 20more slang thanks 🙏
您的教育方法很有趣哈。说英文的话我们不会说eat soil. 我们一般用dirt那个字。
Cool, some words were too difficult, but some were really cool to learn!
Love your videos
你好! 是帕特里克我是练习 中文每天!
(Guitar patrick from hello talk!)
You're winning in the video upload game 哈哈
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Very helpful, I am going to China to study soon and am sure I will use some of these at some point!
wondering if you're doing good?
That was very insightful.
这些俗语中有一些是这几年流行的新造词，其实可以看到两岸用语的互相影响
Do more vid about slangs plz ~~ love you...