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Ducks and chickens are delicious! But they're also dirty. (Be careful of 鸭 and 鸡.)

Posted by Jonah Lopin on Sat, Nov 01, 2008 @ 12:34 PM
 

In china, you can eat 北京烤鸭 [bei3 jing1 kao3 ya1 = beijing roast duck]. You can also eat many kinds of 鸡肉 [ji1 rou4 = chicken meat]. Warning: these foods may cause 口水 (kou3 shui3 = saliva (see last post)].

But beware.

If you ask for a 鸭子 [ya1 zi0 = duckling] you may hear some giggling. The slang meaning of yazi is male prostitute. Hmmm. Not so delicious anymore.

Also, if you ask for 鸡nu3 [i can't get my chinese input editor to give me the character for woman. apologies.] then you are asking for chicken woman, which means prostitute. Careful!!

This kind of slang doesn't usually show up in the dictionary. When I first moved to China I thought people were calling prostitutes ji4nu3. ji4 means "for sale". I thought whore was "for sale girl". But it turns out it's chicken girl. Who knew.

So beware of 鸡 and 鸭子!

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if you haven't already tried, type nv3 in pinyin and it should show you the character 女 for woman. v = the u with an 'umlaut' that is used in pniyin
Posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:24 AM by R.O.C'er
@thekidmento@yahoo - Thanks for the tip. I never would have figured that out and I appreciate the help!
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