{"id":196,"date":"2023-06-13T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T06:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T06:19:09","slug":"decoding-520-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Decoding 520:The Chinese Slang for \u201cI love you\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy 520!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the reason that May 20th or May 21st<\/strong> are considered the prime days for marriage proposals<\/strong> and weddings<\/strong> in China every year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

521 w\u01d4 \u00e8r y\u012b \u6211\u7231\u4f60 w\u01d2 \u00e0i n\u01d0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

520 w\u01d4 \u00e8r l\u00edng \u6211\u7231\u60a8 w\u01d2 \u00e0i n\u00edn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mandarin, the pronunciation of “5 w\u01d4 “<\/strong> is similar to that of “\u6211 w\u01d2”<\/strong>, the pronunciation of “2 \u00e8r “<\/strong> is similar to that of “\u7231 \u00e0i “<\/strong>, the pronunciation of “1 y\u012b” <\/strong>is similar to that of “\u4f60n\u01d0”<\/strong>, and the pronunciation of “0 l\u00edng ” <\/strong>is similar to that of “\u60a8n\u00edn “.<\/strong> So “521”<\/strong> can be used to represent “\u6211\u7231\u4f60 w\u01d2 \u00e0i n\u01d0<\/strong>” and “520”<\/strong> can be used to represent “\u6211\u7231\u60a8 w\u01d2 \u00e0i n\u00edn <\/strong>“. They both mean\u2018I love you<\/strong>\u2019.This is a subtle way for the Chinese to express their love<\/strong> and make vows, isn’t it smart and romantic<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this romantic day<\/strong>, people will do the following activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u8868\u767d bi\u01ceo b\u00e1i<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

confess your love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u7ea6\u4f1a yu\u0113 hu\u00ec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

go on a date<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u6c42\u5a5a qi\u00fa h\u016bn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

to propose<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u767b\u8bb0\u7ed3\u5a5a d\u0113ng j\u00ec ji\u00e9 h\u016bn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

get a marriage registration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u529e\u5a5a\u793c b\u00e0n h\u016bn l\u01d0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

hold a wedding ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are other fascinating Chinese slang terms<\/strong> associated with numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1314 y\u012b s\u0101n y\u00ed s\u00ec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u4e00\u751f\u4e00\u4e16 y\u00ec sh\u0113ng y\u00ed sh\u00ec<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Chinese, \u201c3 s\u0101n\u201d is pronounced like “\u751fsh\u0113ng “, \u201c4 s\u00ec\u201d is pronounced like “\u4e16sh\u00ec”, and “\u4e00\u751f\u4e00\u4e16y\u00ec sh\u0113ng y\u00ed sh\u00ec” means “the whole lifetime”<\/strong>. So, 1314 can be used as a love vow together with 520, and 5201314<\/strong> can mean I will love you till the end of the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

666 li\u00f9 li\u00f9 li\u00f9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u725b\u725b\u725b ni\u00fa ni\u00fa ni\u00fa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Chinese, \u201c6 li\u00f9\u201d and “\u725bni\u00fa” sounds similar, “\u725b ni\u00fa” means awesome<\/strong>, so 666 can be used to praise others who did an excellent job<\/strong>. “666” may have a very different meaning in other cultures so please remember that in China, this is a phrase used for making compliments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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886 b\u0101 b\u0101 li\u00f9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u62dc\u62dc\u5566 b\u00e1i b\u00e1i l\u0101<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Chinese, \u201c88 b\u0101 b\u0101\u201d and “\u62dc\u62dcb\u00e1i b\u00e1i ” have similar pronunciations. \u201c6 liu \u201d sounds like \u201c\u5566la\u201d in Chinese which is a way to make the sentence sounds more casual<\/strong>. so 886 can mean \u201cLater\u201d or \u201cPeace out\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you share some fascinating Chinese slang terms<\/strong>? Feel free to leave a comment<\/strong> and let others guess their meaning<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy 520! What is the reason that May 20th or May 21st are considered the prime days for marriage proposals and weddings in China every year? 521 w\u01d4 \u00e8r y\u012b \u6211\u7231\u4f60 w\u01d2 \u00e0i n\u01d0 520 w\u01d4 \u00e8r l\u00edng \u6211\u7231\u60a8 w\u01d2 \u00e0i n\u00edn In Mandarin, the pronunciation of “5 w\u01d4 “ is similar to that of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[27,28,32,30,29,31],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}