Random new word of the day

[LiYuanXi 1]

IOU

---over due random new words (com'n we should all accumulate a few everyday, right?)

ok so it has occured to me that the word 霸王appears quite often...here are a few I can remember..

霸王龙 ba4wang1long2: t-rex...roarrrrrr

霸王洗发水 (with 成龙, hmmm) (ok if you are in china and see the tv commercials you'll know what this is..)

霸王餐ba4wang1can1: to eat a meal at a restaurant and not pay for it

Any other random 霸王 words you know and want to add?

霸王别姬

hee hee.. what an opera fan I am!

[studentyoung 4]

Would be interested to hear if anyone knows the origin of the usage.

针对和谐的另一说法。“和谐”的谐音，有点黑色幽默的味道：指响应党和ZF的号召，贯彻实施“和谐”社会，文明网络，对某些具体非具体的网络上内容进行修改或者删除。 由于很多和谐的做法导致了网民的不便或者间接侵害了网民的利益，人民以何与ZF争辩？恰好"he xie"在拼音里“和谐=河蟹”，因此，便出现了“河蟹”的“非主流解释”，这种解释，大约产生于2007年。

http://cache.baidu.com/c?word=%CA%B2%C3%B4%3B%BD%D0%2C%B1%BB%2C%BA%D3%D0%B7&url=http%3A//zhidao%2Ebaidu%2Ecom/question/36700908%2Ehtml&p=8a66dd0485cc42b404bd9b7e0e59&user=baidu

Thanks!

[imron 4,876]

Would be interested to hear if anyone knows the origin of the usage.

See here

[Lu 2,755]

氫能高速公路 qing1neng2 gao1su4gong1lu4 hydrogen freeway. No idea what it is, but apparently California is building one.

[heifeng 212]

路霸: lu4ba2: a highway overloard (people who demand money or services with little or no justification , esp. of drivers using the section of highway or road under their control ~old article here ) as well as a car model called RoadBar

Oh, and apparently a chinchilla is called a 龙猫 ( at least according to the petshop where they have a pair of em') but in my dictionary it says something else..regional difference and different names I suppose, not uncommon...ahhhhhh sooo cute and fluffy

[Myriam 0]

From yesterday, in this forum :

之间 zhī jiān : among, between

usage : 在...之间 zài zhī jiān + verb

example : 在两位先生之间 + verb

[Lu 2,755]

嘎然 ga1ran2 suddenly, abruptly. From google, it seems this is mostly used for things that come to a sudden halt. Don't know why I couldn't find it in any dictionary.

[roddy 4,640]

It's in the ABC.

Got a good one today

喷射式呕吐 pēnshèshì ǒutù, projectile vomiting.

[Myriam 0]

圣贤 / 聖賢 shèng xián, a sage, a wise man (I was curious and wanted to know what I would get by typing the pinyin shengxian for 生現).

[muyongshi 57]

燔 to burn (sacrifices)

fán

[roddy 4,640]

殷实， yīnshí, thriving, well-off. Never seen (or registered) the 殷 character before.

[skylee 1,910]

Never seen (or registered) the 殷 character before.

Shang Dynasty (the one before Zhou Dynasty) is usually called 殷商. 殷 was the name of the capital, and is now a surname.

[Lu 2,755]

殷 is the surname of Ophelia and her family in the Chinese opera version of Hamlet. That was the first time I came across it. Now there's random for you.

I had a really good random word but am not sure if I can get it right...

稻草梱 dao4cao3kun3 bale of hay. Specifically the really big (2-3 meters) rolls that you can see lying on fields in autumn. From a picture, it took four people to come up with first the Chinese and then the English, and although I've seen these things a thousand times I still can't think of the Dutch.

[muyongshi 57]

殷实， yīnshí, thriving, well-off.

殷 yǐn roll of thunder

Uh oh tone discrepancy...should be first tone...

[wai ming 14]

Uh oh tone discrepancy...should be first tone...

From 教育部國語辭典:

yīn: 朝代名、姓；盛大、富足、富裕；情意深厚、周到、眾多

yǐn: 形容雷聲；震動

yān: 紅黑色的

[muyongshi 57]

I stand corrected (and I am going beat my dictionary to a bloody pulp....)

[roddy 4,640]

大力水手，dàlìshuǐshǒu. Couldn't figure out what on earth this was until the word 菠菜 was mentioned and I realized it's Popeye's Chinese name.

[Lu 2,755]

面紅耳赤 mian4 hong2 er3 chi4 red in the face, as in 爭得面紅耳赤 arguing until they are red in the face. From an article about, who else, disagreeing Taiwanese politicians.

[heifeng 212]

黑咕咙冬 hei1gu2long1dong1 (or 黑古隆咚) really dark/pitch black (i.e. outdoors..). see

齉nang4: nasal. stuffy/snuffling

this comes in handy while everyone is catching colds since the heat isn't on yet..

[roddy 4,640]

红外线导引飞弹 hóngwàixiàndǎoyǐnfēidàn, heat seeking missile. Courtesy of Airwolf - can't believe someone is adding Chinese subtitles to shows I used to watch as a kid. Knight Rider is there too.