w7u4
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Chinese
| what | freaking thing | you | say | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (w7u4) |
w | 7 | u | 4 | |
| Literally: “What the freak are you saying?”. | |||||
Etymology
Initialism of English what + Cantonese 7 (cat1), a euphemism for Chinese 柒 (cat6, “penis”) + English u (“you”) + Cantonese 四 (sei3, “four”), near-homophone with English say and written as a number.
Pronunciation
Phrase
w7u4
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) what on earth are you saying?
References
- Wetters, R. (2021) ““Kong Girl Phonetics”: Loose Cantonese Romanization in the 2019 Hong Kong Protest Movement”, in Sino-Platonic Papers, number 317, →ISSN