Chinese Urban Dictionary: Anli

Welcome to the hyper-corporate and hyper-consumerist China, where names of international conglomerates and their business models are everyday verbs.

by Mia Li, 22 January 2019

Chinese Urban Dictionary: Jitang

Jitang is bite-sized content that tells us all our problems will be solved and everything will be okay, even if we don’t do anything.

by Mia Li, 22 August 2018

Chinese Urban Dictionary: Malisu

Many young people in China believe they live in a novel or film where they are either the main character or the best character in an ensemble cast.

by Mia Li, 27 February 2019

Chinese Urban Dictionary: Qiushengyu

We all know that the best way to make a person prove his or her love for you is to torture them.

by Mia Li, 18 December 2019

Chinese Urban Dictionary: Zhang Zishi

Knowledge is power – and so is social status. So it should be no surprise that the two go hand-in-hand.

by Mia Li, 15 February 2017

Chinese Urban Dictionary: Kaigua

Kaigua refers to what we think those overachievers seem to have done to advance so much in so little time.

by Mia Li, 26 November 2018

Chinese Urban Dictionary: Youjin

Sometimes such disagreements are so insurmountable that you have no choice but to call it quits on a friendship.

by Mia Li, 22 November 2017

Chinese Urban Dictionary: RongGeng

Ronggeng is the act of re-purposing other people’s fun language into your own to seem more charismatic.

by Mia Li, 17 March 2020

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