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CHARACTERS

 

NAME 名字 ID ENGLISH MEANING
Qu Wei En 曲惟恩 QWE his initials
An Si Dong 安思冬 Xia Tian de Dong Gua | 夏天的冬瓜 Summer’s Wintermelon
 –  – Ni Kan Bu Jian Wo | 你看不见我 You Can’t See Me
 –  – Liu Ru Mei | 柳如眉 Brows Like Willow
 –  – You Nai Jiu Shi Niang | 有奶就是娘 You’re A Lass If You’ve Got Milk
 –  – Silence Silence
 –  – Shou Ji Diao Ce Suo Le | 手机掉厕所了 Phone Dropped In The Toilet
 –  – Ah Li Ba Ba | 啊力爸爸 Papa Ali parody of ali baba
 –  – Si Ye | 四爷 Fourth Master 爷 is a more arrogant way of saying 少爷 (young master)
 –  – Lu Hua Jia | 氯化钾 Potassium Cloride (KCL) KCL is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine
Jing Shui Liu Shen | 静水流深 Still Water Runs Deep
Ju Xie Zuo Fei Zu | 巨蟹座肥猪 Fat Piggy Cancer “Cancer” is referring to the astrological sign
Nai He Qing Shen | 奈何情深 Helplessly Raptured from the phrase “向来缘浅,奈何情深” in 《何以笙箫墨》which means “though we are helplessly deep in love, we can’t help the fact that we just lack that little bit of fate”
Wan Shui Qian Shan | 万水千山 A Long Journey’s Trials means “million waters and thousand mountains” when directly translated; the phrase can either be referring to the hardships of a long journey or the long distance (of million waters and thousand mountains) between two people/parties

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GAME SLANGS (alphabetical order)

SHORTFORM LONGFORM MEANING
AFK away from keyboard (depends on context) may be referring to the temporary unavailable from keyboard (due to power cut or going to toilet or something), or the permanently away the keyboard (as in, not playing computer games ever again and the likes)
CD cooldown the time it takes for skill to be able to be used again
MT main tank main tanker pulling the boss/monster’s aggro
OT over-tank/off-tank/over-threat a non-MT player being overzealous in their healing or dealing damage, hence causing the boss/monster to change targets
T tank the person that pulls the aggro

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INTERNET SLANGS (alphabetical order)

SHORTFORM CHINESE MEANING
555 呜呜呜 onomatopoeia for crying/sobbing
88 拜拜 bye bye
囧 (Jiŏng) embarrassed/awkward/speechless/frustrated/depressed/orz
board gathering 版聚 where netizens of the group/page/organisation/guild/etc gathers to meet/eat/have fun/play in real life (usually eating though)
CJ 纯洁 pure and innocent
MM 妹妹 or 美眉 little girl/little sister or pretty girl/babe; referring to females in general
NB 牛逼 awesome/epic/amazing
P fart
Re reference/repeat
PPMM pretty pretty MM/pretty girl
RP 人品 luck
pp post a picture; usually selfie
SP support

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CHINESE NUANCES (alphabetical order)

ENGLISH CHINESE MEANING
Eat tofu 吃豆腐 take advantage of someone, usually to flirt or touch that person
Head-cannon 脑补 a verb to describe your head automatically whipping up a fantastic backstory or plotline to fill in the blanks the situation left
Ladyboy 人妖 a guy pretending to be a girl (often behind the computer)
Receive a friend card 被发好人卡 friend-zoned
Slash 耽美 yaoi/boys-love/guy-on-guy/the stuff fujoshi likes
Scrub the washboard 跪搓板 a form of punishment or sorts for guys in relationships/boyfriends/husbands

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SHORT FORMS (alphabetical order)

SHORTFORM CHINESE MEANING
BBS Bulletin Board System an online forum of sorts
CS Counter-Strike an online game
GRE Graduate Record Examination something like SAT and ACT
TS TeamSpeak a voice communication application
WOW World of Warcraft an online game

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RELATIONSHIPS (alphabetical order)

ENGLISH CHINESE MEANING
Lao Da 老大 bro/boss/captain; basically referring to the oldest one of the bunch
Sao Zi 嫂子 sis-in-law/older bro’s wife
Waifu 老婆 a term of sickly sweet endearment by a guy to his girlfriend in a relationship similar to darling/baby, but of a higher level where the endearment terms upgrade to “husband & wife” level

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