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the meat and bones of this chicken is gray or black.

乌means dark or black,

骨 means bone,

鸡 means chicken.

It is very tasty,

btw it is considered as a special present for women in China.

and there is a very famouse Chinese Medicine names 乌鸡白凤丸 Dark Chicken White Phoenix Phills, i think Dark Chicken and White Phoenix is the same thing.

The Chinese word “粉红” means “pink”.

• 粉红 (fěn hóng): pink

粉红 can also represent light red, or simply the color that is a mixture of red and white.

I find the name 粉红豹酒吧 interesting.

• 粉红豹酒吧 (Fěnhóng bào jiǔbā): Pink Panther Bar.

Pink Panther Bar is located in the center of Baoshan District, Shanghai.

Additional readings in the comments.

It means black bone chicken, which as the others said, is a silkie chicken. You actually often see them in petting zoos in the UK because they are very friendly and cute looking, with very soft feather (more like hair).

You can buy whole, frozen Black Bone Chickens in large Chinese and Asian supermarkets in London and the rest of the UK. The skin itself is also black (actually very very dark blue) in colour. It is especially popular with Chinese people from Hong Kong and Southern China, not so much with Northern Chinese people. Hong Kong Chinese people believe it is especially beneficial for women to eat black bone chicken, although I am not actually sure about the preparation.

We import them from France usually, they are usually sold by weight (ie priced per kg). Each chicken is usually between 300g and 800g.

Wow, I am amazed that no answer here refers to the word—意思. Actually you can't translate it into English properly. You can only figure it out of the context. You know, Chinese tend to express their feelings in indirect ways, which makes the word 意思 complex for the non-Chinese to understand fully.

If you are into Chinese language or you have learned Chinese for a while, you can give it a go. Because I want to tell you a Chinese joke, and you can guess the meanings of every 意思. OK, here we go!
阿呆给领导送红包时，两人的对话颇有意思。
领导：你这是什么意思？
阿呆：没什么意思，意思意思。
领导：你这就不够意思了。
阿呆：小意思，小意思。
领导：你这人真有意思。
阿呆：其实也没有别的意思。
领导：那我就不好意思了。
阿呆：是我不好意思。
领导：你肯定有什么意思。
阿呆：真的没有什么意思。
领导：既然没有什么意思，那你是什么意思？
阿呆：其实，我的意思就是想意思意思。
领导：你既然是想意思意思，那就是有什么意思。
阿呆哭了：我就是想意思意思。但是，真的没有什么别的意思。这么个小红包能有什么意思？也就是意思意思而已。
领导笑了：呵呵。我对你有点意思了。 阿呆心想：嘻嘻。我就是这个意思。

I try to translate it into English.

One day, Adele wanted to bribed her boss with money. Their conversation was pretty interesting.

Boss: What do you mean?

Adele:No bad purposes. It's just my tiny present to you.

Boss:Then you are so mean. It could do harm to my career.

Adele: Just a tiny present, just a tiny present.

Boss:Oh, you are very funny.

Adele: Actually, I have no bad purposes.

Boss: Well, I am a little embarrassed….I shouldn’t get you wrong…

Adele:Oh,no, I am the one who should feel shamed.

Boss: But to be honest,what do you want from me?

Adele:I want nothing from you,my boss.

Boss:Since you want nothing, then why do you bribe me?

Adele: Actually I just want to show you my heart.

Boss:Since you just want to show me your heart, then you must want something!

Adele: Please don't get me wrong! I just want to show my heart, no other bad purposes! Money can represent nothing at all!

Boss( smiled): Then I have feelings for you..

Adele(thought): Haha, that’s what I want from you.

Well, does this joke drive you crazy? If you can understand Chinese, then you know my translation is like a piece of sh*t. But I have tried my best. A tiny word can have nearly ten different meanings!! I am done.：（

"卧槽"definitly is one of the difficult words to translate into english .

"卧槽"is a bad word though , its something like "fuck "or "damn " . If you pronounce it with different tone , there will be many different meanings .

1 . 卧槽 （ wǒ cáo）the third tone , and the second tone : it means " what???" " whats it ??"

2.卧槽 （wò cào） both are the forth tone : it means : OMG!! Unbelievable

3.卧槽 （wo cào）no tone and the forth tone : it means compliments like " its soooo amazing !" "great !"

4. 卧槽 （wò cao）the forth tone and no tone : it means : " daaamn ! you scared me !! "

5.卧槽 （ wǒ cào ）the third tone and the forth tone: when someone say 卧槽 with these tone , it means she / he is angry now .so it means " fuck " or "damn "

6.卧槽 （ wō cāo ）both are the first tone , it means "contempt "" scorn"

so 卧槽 is not only a pejorative term , it also can be a commendatory term in some situations

I like to read 武侠小说, a category of Chinese novels that does not have an equivalent counterpart in the West. The closest I can think of are action novels like The Three Musketeers or the Count of Monte Cristo. The character, 武, means martial arts; and the character, 侠, means chivalry. A large part of these novels are violent interactions between people in Jianghu.

Jianghu, or 江湖 literally means "river-lake". The meaning of 江湖 has changed over the time. Place it in the ancient times, 江湖 is usually used to denote a sub-society that is sandwiched between the government and normal civilian life. To most readers, 江湖 is seen as the fascinating world composed of swordsmen, bandits, kungfu masters, monks, and other people bearing martial arts.

Another class of modern Chinese would be regional dialect slangs, but for the sake of conciseness I will leave it to the readers to explore by themselves. DMing me about Cantonese phrases and idioms would be welcome.

1. 欲擒故縱, to capture something give it the illusion of freedom. Can also mean playing hard to get in dating.
2. 祖國, patriotic but gender neutral term "motherland"/ "fatherland"
3. 飯桶, rice barrel, slang for someone useless
4. 哭笑不得, the awkward moment when you cant decide whether to laugh or cry

傻逼 is a bad word, in fact a very, very bad one. It generally means “idiot”.

Once you know the characters; you get the meaning fast:

• 傻 (shǎ): stupid
• 逼 (bī): c**t

Hence, 傻逼 literally (shǎ bī) means “stupid c**t”.

It should be noted that this meaning of 逼 (c**t) is a slang term. 逼 has another meaning (s) that are just not vulgar.

• 逼 (bī): compel; force

Additional readings in the comments.

What does the Chinese word 傻逼 mean in English?

Note: This answer includes translation & discussion of swear words, so consider yourself warned.

So, perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the answers to this question have been collapsed.

The main reasons are these:

• Quora doesn’t like short answers,
• most people have been treating this as a simple translation, or
• just translating it from one point of view, without much explanation as to how it’s commonly used, or used by different groups in different situations.

Let me see if I can help.

Before we can start translating, we need to clarify something:

Some people won’t believe me, but the original phrase is actually 傻屄 (shǎbī), not 傻比 or 傻逼, etc. As chinaSMACK correctly points out in their excellent glossary, it’s often simply written as SB, 傻逼, 傻比, etc., which has led to many Chinese (particularly younger Chinese) not realizing that the original phrase uses the 屄 character.

Here’s the definition from chinaSMACK:

SB = 傻屄

[shǎbī / sha3 bi1]
noun/adjective.
Stupid cunt, or describes something as being very stupid. Often shortened to “SB”, “sha bi”, 傻B, 2B (2 = S), or 傻 + any Chinese character with the “bi” sound like 逼 or 比. In fact, 屄 is the true character but almost never used.

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Edit (August 2020):

It’s been two years since I originally wrote this answer, and it’s continued to get a lot more attention than I ever expected. Recently, Quora told me it had been featured in over two million people’s Quora Digest, so I thought I should come back and take another look. Although it’s not as polished as I’d like, I think the answer overall is still something I’d generally agree with and stand by, though I thought this section ought to be updated. Thanks to everyone who has commented and helped expand my thinking here.

So, why do people typically not write 傻屄?

Well, as many people have aptly pointed out in the comments below, this could be for several reasons.

When I first wrote this answer I, somewhat ignorantly, opined that this was due to internet censorship and the CCP, and Chinese in general, tending to be pretty conservative. Since that time, others have contested that the term isn’t censored or that the real reasons are more likely to have to do with previously high levels of illiteracy in China (e.g., people might know what a word sounds like when spoken, but not know what characters are used to write it—similar to a person knowing how to say an English word but not knowing how to spell it), or just not seeing it written the original way and assuming it’s written a different way. Others have argued the original character is just too vulgar for decent people to write.

It seems likely it’s a combination of these factors.

Censorship is often not done directly by the government, so individual companies end up coming up with their own rules for censorship, which are not always consistent. Some might censor certain ‘bad’ words, while others might not. There’s also considerable evidence that individuals self-censor in an effort to avoid potentially getting in trouble. I also agree with arguments about the effects of illiteracy or a lack of exposure to the original version.

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In my experience, many Chinese (again, particularly younger Chinese) don’t realize how vulgar the original term is (傻 just means ‘stupid’ and it’s a relatively common, inoffensive word, so it’s the second word that adds the vulgarity). They hear it being used casually, so they in turn think of it in a casual way, which is aided by the fact that the actual character in the phrase is rarely written.

So, partly because of the different characters in use, and partly because different social groups use some terms differently from the public at large, this has led to differences in use and in the perceived meaning of the phrase. This is why many Chinese will translate 傻屄 as anything from ‘moron’ or ‘idiot’ to ‘douchebag’ (less accurate, IMO; ‘asshat’ would be closer), ‘stupid’ or, most accurately, ‘stupid cunt.’

When I taught senior middle school for two years, it was pretty common to hear my students say 傻屄 to describe someone or something.

If I ever asked them to say what they meant in English, they would usually reach for words like ‘foolish,’ ‘silly’ or ‘stupid,’ and in the majority of cases when I heard it used, it was in a more or less friendly, teasing way.

Some Chinese friends have told me that they think my students had bad language, since many of them seemed pretty comfortable with lots of Chinese swear words (我操, 我去, 坏蛋, 牛屄, etc.), but I think using that kind of language is pretty common for that age group around the world—everyone is trying to sound more ‘adult’ and often they end up overcompensating.

Most adults over the age of 40 will probably tell you that it’s bad language and you should avoid saying it. Among kids, teenagers and young adults, it’s something you can use with care, if you’re pretty good friends, you know they use it, and you’re using it in a joking, teasing way.

Personally, I don’t use it.

Why?

Well, knowing that ‘cunt’ is the correct literal translation of the second character, I’m just not comfortable with using that word in any language, even if I know many of my Chinese friends use it and wouldn’t mind.

In English, and perhaps particularly American English (for reasons I’m not aware of—maybe someone like Oscar Tay knows?) the c-word is considered very strong, bad, rude, vulgar language.

Most people seem to feel more comfortable swearing in a second language than in their native tongue. Many of my Chinese friends will readily drop f-bombs and others left, right and center, even if they avoid using Chinese swear words. It’s understandable—it’s less familiar, so it feels less sacred and less taboo—but this one still feels like a bridge too far for me to feel comfortable using it.

Footnotes

“Messy little bits of chopped things.” Literally it means “miscellaneous broken” or “chaotic smashed.” Chinese doesn’t conjugate, so a lot of Chinese words don’t have discrete parts of speech, and can be used as adjectives, verbs, nouns, etc. and combined on a fairly flexible basis. So a more loose translation would be something like “Assorted Cuts,” “Random Stir-fry.” or “Bits’n’Pieces.”

As it happens, this is the Chinese name for what is known as “Chop Suey,” (rough anglicization of how the word is pronounced in Cantonese) the name given to the dish invented by Chinese immigrants using local ingredients and methods to reproduce something vaguely Chinese for local American palates. The exact details of the invention are unknown (and probably undocumented), and there are no set ingredients other than “bite-sized pieces of mostly vaguely Asian things, cooked in either too much soy sauce or with virtually no flavor at all.”

No, wait, that could actually pass for Chinese food.

There we go. You can see the blandness as clear as that ludicrously oversized spoon.

Kung Pao Chicken in Chinese is:

Traditional: 宮保雞丁

Simplified: 宫保鸡丁

Mandarin Pinyin: Gong1 bao3 ji1 ding1

Literally it translated to ‘palace guardian chicken cubes’.

Legend has it that it was named after the governor of Sichuan province during the late Qing Dynasty.

The spelling of ‘kung pao’ is a legacy of the now-obsolete Wade-Giles Romanization system. Nowadays, everyone just uses pinyin.

Yum!

Originally, it means pink, simple as it is.

But, as the nationalism in China keeps growing, liberals and anti-nationalists starts to call nationalists 小粉红 “little pink”, meaning that these guys are blinded by governments’ propagandas and all they want is to conquer other countries like Vietnam or Phillipines. They’re usually related to a Chinese anime named 那年那兔那些事 “Those years, those rabbits, those things” (forgive my shitty translation). In this anime, China is depicted as a rabbit, who is forbearing and ambitious, wanting to make a good future by keeping its head down and don’t get involved in other countries’ businesses. And thus 小粉红 use the rabbit to represent PRC and CPC, and shouting slogans like 我兔腹黑 “we rabbits are scheming” (please notice that the word scheming here is of positive meaning), 我兔的梦想是星辰大海 “we rabbits are ambitious about bigger picture”, etc. Some of them are Chinese supremacists that look down upon other ethnicities, especially Black people, by calling them n-words on the Internet. Some of them are kind of OK people and sane communism advocates, most are not. My suggestion is to stay away from them.

A lot of fine answers here, but I’m surprised to see how often people say it’s internet slang, because I’m pretty sure it’s not. Just because people use it on the internet doesn’t mean it originated there.

Very few people are addressing the usage of 鬼 here except to say that it’s not literally “ghost.” Actually there’s a long history of using the word gui in Chinese as a figure of speech, either as an adjective or noun. It has a negative connotation, but not strong, just anything the speaker may distrust or not understand, or that is false or illusory. An interesting example is a prose poem I translated entitled 鬼话 by the poet Yang Lian 杨炼, which explores the feeling of being an outsider in a foreign land (I think he was in New Zealand). The title, which I translated as “Ghost Talk,” has at least two meanings, including “ghost story,” “ghost talk,” and “lies” (if you say something unbelievable someone might respond with the exclamation 见鬼！“I’m/your seeing a ghost!” to register disbelief).

As a reference to the poem itself, it implies that the author has a ghostly existence, which resonates with the concept of foreignness because for centuries foreigners (generally Westerners) have been referred to in Chinese colloquially as 洋鬼子 or “ghosts from overseas.” This must have some connection with why Cantonese call foreigners 鬼佬, although Alto Oak’s answer sheds a new light on 鬼 from the point of view of Cantonese. Why would people from overseas be called “ghosts”? I think it’s a slightly derogatory (or sometimes very derogatory, depending on the situation) term for the unfamiliar or unknown. Most languages have a word for ghost, but this way of making it a descriptor is probably unique to the Chinese language.

A little history.

The inventor came from Guizhou Province, very fond of dried stir fry chicken with peanuts and dried chilli. He was a high rank official during Qing Dynasty, once assigned as the Governor of Sichuan Province.

Whilst that was his posting, he had an official title, much like these days a regional head of Southwest having a corporate title of EVP Something.

His title was 东宫少保.

While literally 东宫 is East Palace, which is the assigned residence for the crown prince and his mother, the empress, the name East Palace in this title refers to the crown prince.

少保 is a title cum duty for an official who is supposed to be a “deputy” to 太保 who provides security services to the crown prince. Of course, being away it is not practicable so it is just an honourable title.

Deputy Royal Chief Security Officer for the Crown Prince, if you will.

In the palace there are three royal titles for people who teach açademics, martial arts and provide guarding. They are

太师 who teaches academics

太傅 who teaches martial arts

太保 who guards

Back to the food, the 4-character title was abbreviated to 2-character 宫保. Prince’s Guard if you will.

When it was named in English almost a century ago, the romanisation was based on Wade-Giles, thus Kung Pao, instead of using Pinyin as Gongbao.

Though a Sichuan dish, it is common in overseas Chinese restaurants including Cantonese restaurants that some may translate to Kung Po Chicken.

It was popular across many parts of China although the dish is called differently, and there are nuances how people prefer to do it.

In Shandong where it is also popular, it is called 酱爆鸡丁 literally chicken cubes dried stir fry with sauce. If you see this name on Chinese menu, it is the same as Kung Pao Chicken.

In Guizhou where it originated, it is called 糊辣子鸡丁 literally chicken cubes in chilli paste.

In Sichuan where people popularized it because of the Governor, it is called 宫保鸡丁 Kung Pao Chicken. This helped it gain international popularity (primarily the US) since Sichuan cuisine is often associated with the generous use of chilli, dried chilli in particular.

Which one is your favorite? Peanut or Cashew?

Bonus info:

鸡丁 is chicken meat in cubes. Originally it only used chicken breast meat as it is easier to cut it into cubes. However, breast takes longer time to marinate. It also can get chewy if overcooked. Not to worry, the cook has found that if a hot wok is used to do a quick dried stir fry as well as the use of chilli it would get the best result. These days, many use chicken thigh so it is not in a neat cube shape but who cares.

Though peanuts were used in the past, these days it is common to use cashew nuts as it is deemed higher class. Thanks to global supply chain now people can enjoy the dish using a tropical produce.

Finally, the name of the inventor is 丁宝桢. Although his surname is 丁 and one of his given name characters is 宝 which sounds exactly as 保, it is pure coincidence. Pay a little tribute the next time you enjoy it :)

There is an English word for "having a sense of being wronged (委屈)" , and it is "grievance”. It is a noun as used in the following examples :

The idea makes me feel a sense of grievance.

我突然感到很委屈。

He will not easily forget his grievance.

他不會輕易忘掉委屈。

There is also an adjective "aggrieved” which means "受委屈”.

Examples :

Whenever she was reprimanded she would put on an aggrieved look.

她只要受到譴責就會裝出一副受委屈的樣子。

After hearing what the supervisor said to her, Jenny felt aggrieved and insulted.

聽過主管的說話後，珍妮大為不滿，感到一肚子都是委屈。

There is also a verb "aggrieve” which means "令 - - 受到委屈", it's mostly used in the passive voice and as a past participle of "aggrieve", it's spelt the same as the participle adjective "aggrieved”.

Example :

A person aggrieved may appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction.

受屈的人可以上簡易司法管轄權法院提出上訴。