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Chinese Urban Dictionary

Learn the latest slang, memes, and trends of China’s netizens

STREET TALK

Cattle Class

Livestock of the world, unite!—behind this new meme for overwork

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Sept. 13, 2019

STREET TALK

A Numbers Game

Decoding Chinese “internet numeral language”

Aug. 29, 2019

SOCIAL CHINESE

Artistic Pretensions

How to talk about art like a critic

Liu Jue (刘珏)

Aug. 25, 2019

STREET TALK

Roll with It

Jargon for anything you love or hate

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

July 13, 2019

SOCIAL CHINESE

Fitting Remarks

Surviving the fatal ‘how do I look’ question

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

May 28, 2019

STREET TALK

Cruel Conundrums

When innocent questions prove to be fatal

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

May 3, 2019

SOCIAL CHINESE

How To Spot Fake News

A surprisingly simple guide to filtering rumors from reality

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

April 2, 2019

STREET TALK

Up in the Air

Out of touch with the common people? You may be inflated

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Feb. 27, 2019

SOCIAL CHINESE

Gala Palaver

How to decode CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Feb. 4, 2019

SOCIAL CHINESE

Bad Romance

The melodramatic writings of Qiong Yao have inspired a whole slew of slushy satire

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Jan. 19, 2019

STREET TALK

Slap Bash

The memes that punish those who break their word

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

Jan. 6, 2019

SOCIAL CHINESE

Performance Anxiety

Get through the ordeal of work evaluations with this handy language lesson

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

Dec. 25, 2018

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