中国語の卑語

北京語の卑語は多くの場合、親族、特に母親への軽蔑や性的な単語、人を人間ではないとする侮辱が含まれる。英語と比較し、大便に関するや冒涜的な言及はあまり使われない。特に明記されていない場合、本記事では簡体字を使用する。
英語と同様、多くの北京語の卑語では性器や性的な単語が含まれる。男性器の俗語は文字通りそれを指し、必ずしも否定的な言葉とは限らない。
Note:One should note that inMiddle Chinesethe words for屌and鳥were homophones. Thefǎnqièof "屌" (丁了切) and thefǎnqièof "" (都了切) denoted the same pronunciation; both began with avoiceless unaspirated alveolar stop(/t/ in IPA anddin pinyin) and the same vowel and tone.  Based on regular sound change rules, we would expect the word for bird in Mandarin to be pronounceddiǎo, but Mandarin dialects' pronunciations of the word forbirdevolved to an alveolar nasal initial, likely as a means of taboo avoidance, giving contemporaryniǎowhile most dialects in the south retain the Middle Chinese alveolar stop initial and the homophony or near homophony of these words.
男性器よりも膣の言葉が使われることが多い。侮辱としてより一般的に使用され、より攻撃的で否定的な意味合いを持っている。
In addition to the above expressions used as insults directed against women, other insults involve insinuating that they are prostitutes:
Malemasturbation, at least, has several vulgar expressions, in addition to two formal/scientific ones that refer to both male and female masturbation (shǒuyín手淫andzìwèi自慰):
英語と同様、侮辱や冒涜的な言葉として性行為を表す下品な言葉が使われる。
Insulting someone's motheris also common:
The 中文大辭典Zhōng wén dà cí diǎn (Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Chinese Language)), discusses 王八 (wáng bā) in vol. 6 p. 281. "Wáng bā" is the term that is usually written casually for the slur that means something like "son of a bitch."
A "wángbādàn 忘/王八蛋" is the offspring of a woman lacking virtue. Another meaning of 王八 is鼈biē, fresh-water turtle.Turtle heads reemerging from hiding in the turtle's shell look like theglansemerging from theforeskin, and turtles lay eggs. So a "wang ba" is a woman who has lost her virtue, and a "wang ba dan" is the progeny of such a woman, a turtle product, but, figuratively, also a penis product. 龜頭 (guītóu, "turtle head") can refer to the glans of the penis.
"Wáng bā 王八" originally got switched over from another "忘八 wàng bā" (one that referred to any very unvirtuous individual) because of a man with the family name Wáng 王 who picked up the nickname 賊王八 zéi Wáng bā ("the thieving Wang Eight") but for being a dastard, not for being a bastard. The dictionary does not say, but he may have been the eighth Wang among his siblings. Anyway, he became "crook Wang eight" and the term stuck and spread just as "Maverick" did in English. There is a pun here because of the earlier expression 忘八 wàng bā used to describe (1) any person who forgets/disregards the eight virtues, (2) an un-virtuous woman, i.e., one who sleeps around. The first meaning applied to the dastardly Wang, but the family name got "stuck" to the second, sexual, term.
Many insults imply that the interlocutor's mother or even grandmother was promiscuous. The turtle is emblematic of the penis and also of promiscuous intercourse, because turtles were once thought to conceive by thought alone, making paternity impossible to prove. Eggs are the progeny of turtles and other lower animals, so the word dàn (蛋) is a metonym for offspring.
References to various kinds of disability are sometimes used against both abled and disabled people as an insult.
While there are vulgar expressions in English referring to the buttocks or rectum, there are no real equivalents in Mandarin.Pìgu yǎn(屁股眼) orpìyǎnr(屁眼兒) one expression for anus, is not vulgar, but it occurs in various curses involving animperforate anus
As in the West, highly sexual women have been stigmatized. Terms for males who sleep around are rare.
Occasionally, slang words with a negative connotation are turned around and used positively:
Other insults include the wordhùn(混), which means "mixed-up", orhùn(), which means "muddy":
Perhaps due to the influence ofwángbādàn(王八蛋),dàn(蛋; "egg") is used in a number of other insults in addition tohùndàn(混蛋):
The wordguā(瓜; melon or gourd) is also used in insults:
In addition to the senses listed above, the "melon" is a metonym for the womb, and a "broken melon" refers to a female's lost virginity.
The noun棍gùn, stick/staff is often used to refer to someone who is morally corrupted.
The noun for "ghost" 鬼 is often used to mock someone with some bad habit. The mocking tone may not be very serious though.
精 "nonhuman spirit in a human's form" is usually for insulting some cunning people.
Because shame or "face" is important in Chinese culture, insulting someone as "shameless" is much stronger than in English:
Other insults accuse people of lacking qualities expected of a human being:
Sǐ(死; "dead", "cadaverous," or, less precisely, "damn(ed)") is used in a number of insults:
The words "屎" (shǐ) (= shit, turd, dung), "粪" (fèn) (= manure, excrement) and "大便(= stool, poop)" (dà biàn), all meanfecesbut vary from blunt four letter to family-friendly, respectively. They can all be used in compound words and sentences in a profane manner.
Originally, the various Mandarin Chinese words for "excrement" were less commonly used as expletives, but that is changing. Perhaps because farting results in something that is useless even for fertilizer: "fàng pì" (放屁; lit. "to fart") is an expletive in Mandarin. The word "pì" (屁; lit. "fart") or the phrase is commonly used as an expletive in Mandarin (i.e. "bullshit!").
In a 1968 academic study of Chinesepejorativewords, more than a third of the 325-termcorpusof abusive expressions compare the insulted person with an animal, with the worst curses being "animal" generally, "pig, dog, animal", or "animal in dress", which deny the person of human dignity.The expressions contain metaphorical references to the following domesticated animals: dogs, cows, and chickens (12 or 11 terms each), (8 times), horse (4), cat (3), and duck (2), and one each to sheep, donkey and camel.A variety of wild animals are used in these pejorative terms, and the most common are monkey (7 times) and tiger (5 times), symbolizing ugliness and power respectively.
The fact that many insults are prefaced with the Mandarin Chinese word for dog attest to the animal's low status:
In at least one case, rabbit is part of an insult:
The Chinese word for bird "niǎo"(鸟) was pronounced as "diǎo" in ancient times, which rhymes with (屌) meaning penis or sexual organ.It also sounds the same as "penis" in several Chinese dialects. Thus, bird is often associated with 'fuck', 'penis' or 'nonsense'：
A tigress or 母老虎 (Mǔ lǎohǔ) refers to a fierce woman, usually someone's strict wife.
A dinosaur or 恐龙 (Kǒnglóng) has been used as Internet slang to describe an ugly girl.
Certain words are used for expressing contempt or strong disapproval:
Some expressions are harder to explain:
Some expressions represent offensive insults involving some kind of actions:
Many locations within China have their own local slang, which is scarcely used elsewhere. Some of them have been listed above, but these are a few expressions that are not aforementioned:
Mandarin Chinese has specific terms and racial euphemisms for different ethno-racial groups around the world, and some discriminatory slurs against Chinese representatives from certain governments and backgrounds.
There are various circumlocutions in Mandarin Chinese forhomosexual, and the formal terms are recent additions just as is the direct translation of "masturbation" (hand soiling). The words listed below are generally not regarded as being profane.Duànxiù() — cut off sleeve, from the story of a ruler whose male favourite fell asleep on the sleeve of his jacket, so when the ruler had to get up to conduct some needed business he cut his sleeve off rather than awaken his lover (See Bret Hinsch,Passions of the Cut Sleeve,p. 53). An analogous story, of a sleeve being cut off so as not to disturb a sleeping cat, is told of bothConfuciusandMuhammad, and perhaps others.
Yútáo() — remains of a peach, from the story of a favourite who rather too familiarly offered his sovereign a peach of which he had already eaten half. (FromHan Fei Zi,chapter 12)
Bōlí(玻璃), literally "glass", but implies "glass person". It comes from a passage in theDream of the Red Chamberin which Phoenix is described as having a "crystal heart in a glass body," meaning that she was glistening, pure, clear, fastidious, etc. It stands as high praise for a lady, but comes off as an effeminate slur when referring to men. The English translation of Bai Xian-yong's novel about male homosexuals in Taiwan includes the term "crystal boys," derived from the same passage in the earlier novel, and also a rather gruff reference to the old photographer who befriends some of the boys as "you old glass," which, delivered by a female friend of his, comes out sounding about on the level of "you old fart," i.e., not really so very offensive, but indicating a passing mood of aggravation on the speaker's part. Nevertheless, the general meaning is probably closer to "old queer."
Nán fēng(), male custom, is homophonous with (南風, southern custom.) The first writing of the term would fairly easily be picked out as referring to sexual interactions, whereas the second term could just mean "the customs of the southern part of China."
Tóngzhì(同志;Template:Literally) was recently adopted in Hong Kong and Taiwan to mean homosexual, and is sometimes used on the mainland. Literally the term means "one having same aspirations".
Tùzi(兔子), used to refer tocatamites(lit. rabbit). (See Herbert A. Giles,A Chinese-English Dictionary,entry 12,122) See alsoTu Er Shen.
Since the success ofAng Lee'sBrokeback Mountain,duànbèi(, lit. "Brokeback") has also become popular.
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