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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Translating Chinese memes to help me learn Chinese:

当我喂了我的猫之后

Dāng wŏ - when I

wèi le - fed (喂 means to feed. But if you say it like wéi it means "hey" and is used on the phone as a greeting)

wŏ de māo - my cat (的 indicates possession)

zhīhòu - later/after

一会见臭傻逼

Yīhuì jiàn - see you later (一会 means "a moment" or "a while". 见 - like in 再见, zàijiàn, goodbye - literally means "to see" or "meet with". So "see in a while")

chòu - means "stinking", "disgraceful", "bad"

shăbī - a curse word that is misogynistic (which is probably why it's now censored in the OP - well not in the thumbnail, but when you expand the picture, apparently). 傻 means "stupid" and 逼 is a verb meaning "to press" or figuratively "to extort". But! That bī is not the bī that is originally used in the phrase. The correct bī is 屄 which is a swear word for vagina. So, the bī used here is a homophone that was possibly used to avoid censorship, but has since taken on the meaning of the original in this context. It is also abbreviated SB sometimes.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

TIL 後 simplifies as 后... that's quite a difference