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Just like in English where 4 is a shorthand of “for”, 2 is used as “too” and “to”, in Chinese, numbers used for on-line chatting could fun.

I guess not every Chinese learner knows that we have 2 set of pronunciations for numbers. One could read 一, or 腰. Zero could read 零, or 洞. The unusual pronunciations are military jargons, I think.

I should warn you, don’t addict to this. It might ruin your Chinese learning. :D Here we go.

1 你

2 爱

3 山

4 死 <<<< bad luck

5 我

6 溜 <<<< luck number!

7 妻

8 发 <<<< luck number!

9 酒

51 我要

70 其实

80 不是

90 就是

108 你懂吧?

518 我要发 <<<< hot!

521 我爱你

58121 我爸也爱你

1525 你不爱我?!

536 我上楼

886 Bye-bye 喽!

114194 要你死,你就死!

Here is a joke. A driver registered the number 05144 for his car, because it sounded like “动我你试试”, meaning “Hit me? Try it!” Unfortunately, his car still got hit by another car. The driver was very upset until he saw the plate number of the other car. That was 44944, which sounded like “试试就试试”, meaning “Try it? I’ll try!”

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I love the joke, Outofin!

Here are some I've seen:

35925 想我就爱我

1799 一起走走

5366 我想聊聊

246 饿死了

918 加油吧

8013 伴你一生

04551 你是我唯一

51396 我要睡觉了

0487 你是白痴

995 救救我

5203344587 我爱你生生世世不变心

88 拜拜

748 去死吧

537 我生气

3030335 想你想你想想我

520 我爱你

53880 我想抱抱你

3344520 生生世世我爱你

53719 我深情依旧

25184 爱我一辈子

1392010 一生就爱你一人

259695 爱我就了解我

078 你去吧

74839 其实不想走

20999 爱你久久久

5871 我不介意

82475 被爱就是幸福

775885 亲亲我抱抱我

08376 你别生气了

3307778 想和你去吹吹风

095 你找我

8006 不理你了

25873 爱我到今生

20863 爱你到来生

3399 长长久久

1573 一往情深

234 爱相随

20863 爱你到来生

3456 相思无用

0594184 你我几是一辈子

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I once had a phone number in China that contained combinations of 574 and 514. "Wo qi si" and "Wo yao si" It sounded like I was angry and I wanted to die when I gave out my phone number. ha! I also noticed that when you buy a cell phone number the ones with lots of 4s are always cheaper.

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When I read the numbers, I feel I’m speaking Shanghaiese or some southern dialect.

Couldn't have said it better!

Interesting you use 0 for 你.

I've found that both 1 and 0 can represent 你. Same goes for the other numbers---they can represent more than one character (as you can tell). Mostly the meaning is understood through context and guesswork. Has anyone else found this to be true?

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I knew I was forgetting some!

555 呜呜呜

5376 我生气了 (varient of 537)

53719 我深情依旧

574839 我其实不想走

587 我抱歉

5360 我想念你

53980 我想揍扁你

540086 我是你女朋友 (I think this one's funny. Would you say it to remind someone lest they forgot? To remind yourself?)

596 我走了

There are lots more, I'm sure!

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  • 3 months later...

In "Extreme Chinese" book there's an interesting example how foreigners pronounce 78 as JĪBA (forgetting to add aspiration to 七 (QĪ) and it sounds as JĪ to a Chinese ear), which makes Chinese people laugh.

78-78-78 鸡巴鸡巴鸡巴 :)

Sorry, I don't mean to swear but are any associations for Chinese people with 7-8?

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We use 8484 for 不是不是 more often.

Though 5454 sounds like Shanghainese, my friend and I never use this in IM.

And 886 for 拜拜了.

For words used on forum, we have "灌水", "沙发" which is also very popular.

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English seems to have this too...

Was chatting with a Taiwanese in the US, end of the chat I said '88'. He answered '99'. I thought he was joking so I answered '1010', but it turned out '99' means 'night-night'.

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