Chinese slang question

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Snelvis
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Chinese slang question

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I had a very funny Chinese teacher here in Australia who mentioned a lot of slang in our classes. Things like ma ma hu hu and po po ma ma.

One that I forgot that has been bugging me for days is the slang term for a guy that looks at girls all the time...I guess our equivelant to a perve. It was something like "si si ni ni" or "si si mi mi"

Can anyone help out?

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Re: Chinese slang question

Post by tfc.chin »

Snelvis wrote:I had a very funny Chinese teacher here in Australia who mentioned a lot of slang in our classes. Things like ma ma hu hu and po po ma ma.

One that I forgot that has been bugging me for days is the slang term for a guy that looks at girls all the time...I guess our equivelant to a perve. It was something like "si si ni ni" or "si si mi mi"
I think he meant 色色迷迷 (se4 se4 mi2 mi2).

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Post by cedarlee »

色迷迷is more frequently used in our daily communication
色色迷迷 souds a little bit weird
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Re: Chinese slang question

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Snelvis wrote:I had a very funny Chinese teacher here in Australia who mentioned a lot of slang in our classes. Things like ma ma hu hu and po po ma ma.

One that I forgot that has been bugging me for days is the slang term for a guy that looks at girls all the time...I guess our equivelant to a perve. It was something like "si si ni ni" or "si si mi mi"

Can anyone help out?

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Post by Alex_rcpilot »

I guess 色眯眯(sounds the same as those above) would be better. Coz when you see the characters you can imagine how such pair of eyes would look like. lol!
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Post by fengqingyang »

se4 mi2 mi2 (色迷迷) is the closest I can think of.
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Post by twtony »

I think he used 色迷迷 se4 mi2 mi2 as well

I actually have never heard people say 色色迷迷 (se4 se4 mi2 mi2)
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Post by demoore »

I might be wrong but I've heard once a chinese friend saying that 眯眯 (mimi) could be used as a slang for "nipples". That might explain it.
But I asked other people who did'nt know.

Another point, can 马马虎虎 (mamahuhu) be considered as slang?
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Post by Alex_rcpilot »

demoore wrote:I might be wrong but I've heard once a chinese friend saying that 眯眯 (mimi) could be used as a slang for "nipples". That might explain it.
But I asked other people who did'nt know.

Another point, can 马马虎虎 (mamahuhu) be considered as slang?
it's "咪咪".

Pay attention when Chinese call cats. When they don't know its name they always call them "咪咪", it's just like "kitty".

And in English, cat can be called kitty, or pussy. And you know what else pussy means.

Same thing happens to cat in China, 咪咪 can be cat, or something you know. But it's somewhere different from what cat can mean in English.

I think "马马虎虎" can be considered a slang. Because it derives from the word "马虎", yet the meaning has changed. Sort of resemble what happend to "so" and "so-so".
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Post by minghuan »

semimi 色迷迷 or 色眯眯 are all correct in chinese , these pronunciation is like se4mi1mi1
,are not "se4mi2mi2" though.
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