{"id":828,"date":"2023-07-30T19:47:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2023-07-30T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:47:06","slug":"10-chinese-key-words-to-summarize-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"10 Chinese Key Words to Summarize 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the unusual 2020, have you picked up some new words in Chinese? Recently, Chinese media has made their lists of Chinese buzzwords to summarize the last year. Here I picked top 10 words for you to read. Do you know all of them? Have a look!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Heroes Who Throw Themselves in Harm\u2019s Way<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u9006\u884c\u8005<\/strong>refers to those who walk in the adverse direction. It is usually used to call people who put themselves in danger overcoming the difficulties. Such as Chinese doctors and nurses who travelled to Wuhan to support medical work when the novel coronavirus\u00a0broke out in early 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u4e8c<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u4e91\u76d1\u5de5<\/strong>\u00a0originally means millions of netizens watched the 24 hours live broadcast of Fire God Mountain Hospital and Thunder God Mountain Hospital being built and acted as online supervisor. Now it generally means monitoring the progress of work remotely through network.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u4e09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health Code<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u5065\u5eb7\u7801<\/strong> is a QR code generated by the government\u2019s self-management information system. The green, yellow and red code shows your health situation under pandemic and becomes a pass for you to go anywhere for China\u2019s epidemic prevention and control. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\u56db<\/p>\n\n\n

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Toolman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u5de5\u5177\u4eba<\/strong>\u00a0already has its corresponding English word:\u00a0anyone that lower themselves or conform others against their true beliefs just to be popular.\u00a0The essence of this word is that people\u2019s personality is materialized and lost themselves. In the contemporary context, the meaning of tool man has been generalized. Young people call themselves tool man to express their desire to get rid of the embarrassing situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u4e94<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Clear Your Plate” Campaign<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u5149\u76d8<\/strong>\u00a0means eating up everything on the plate. The campaign aims to help people cultivate the habit of saving, cherishing food and opposing waste.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Younger generation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u540e\u6d6a<\/strong>\u00a0literally means the rear wave. It comes from the idiom \u201c\u957f\u6c5f\u540e\u6d6a\u63a8\u524d\u6d6a(the Yangtze River forges ahead waves\u00a0upon waves)<\/strong>\u201d. Originally meaning\u00a0younger generation, the current popular\u00a0\u540e\u6d6a\u00a0<\/strong>refer to the post 90s, post 00s generation, or the youth groups in rich families who have superior quality of life and free choices that everyone envies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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L<\/strong>ive Streaming Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u76f4\u64ad\u5e26\u8d27<\/strong>\u00a0is the marketing\u00a0strategy done\u00a0by stars, internet celebrities and internet marketers through live broadcast or video channels online. People from all walks of life join the group to help the development of regional economy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u516b<\/p>\n\n\n

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Commuter & Balance Payer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u6253\u5de5\u4eba<\/strong> often get up early and work late with meager wages but work very hard. \u5c3e\u6b3e\u4eba<\/strong> are those who has paid for the deposit of goods from Double 11 online shopping promotion and wait to pay the balance. \u6253\u5de5\u4eba<\/strong> and \u5c3e\u6b3e\u4eba<\/strong> are almost the same group of people. They are a kind of black humor reflecting the strong resonance under the double pressure of competition in the work place and the burden of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The First Cup of Milk Tea in Autumn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phrase means that when autumn comes, lovers, friends or family members send red pocket through Wechat or Alipay in the name of drinking milk tea to express their intimate feelings. The number in the red pocket is usually RMB 52.0, homophonic to \u201cw\u01d2 \u00e0i n\u01d0 (I love you)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Happen to Coincide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\u00a0Chinese idiom express the meaning that everyone agrees on the opinions or actions without prior consultation. Because of the Covid-19 this year, the word has a new meaning:\u00a0No face-to-face appointment or no gathering<\/strong>(\u4e0d\u7ea6<\/strong>) has become\u00a0the common rule for everyone<\/strong>(\u800c\u540c<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Which of the words above is frequently used by you? What 10 words you would like to pick for your own 2020?\u00a0Hope you find it useful in learning Chinese vocabulary and look forward to new words that may come up in this year!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the unusual 2020, have you picked up some new words in Chinese? Recently, Chinese media has made their lists of Chinese buzzwords to summarize the last year. Here I picked top 10 words for you to read. Do you know all of them? Have a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10],"tags":[43],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}