Firefly chinese slang

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A

• A knot of self-indulgent lunacy: Fang zong feng kuang de jie
• A real bastard!: Ge zhen de hun dan!
• A switch to those girls' backsides is just good enough: Bian da ta men de bei jiu gou le
• Abracadabra-alakazam: Tian-ling-ling, di-ling-ling
• Accusing someone of lying, a ridiculous notion, or talking out of the posterior: Fang pi, literally "to break wind"
• Act blindly: Bi se yan jing zhuo ma que, literally "try to catch sparrows with one's eyes blindfolded"
• Agitate someone out of hiding: Da chow jing ser, literally, "beating the grass to startle the snake"
• Aah!: Ai ya!
• Alas: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
• All talk: Da chong wu dan, literally "big gun, no bullet"
• All that is proper: Suo you de dou shi dang
• All the planets in space shoved up my butt: Tai kong suo you de xing qiu sai jin wo de pi gu
• Alliance: Tong meng
• An absolute genius: Zhen de shi tian cai
• Are we clear?: Dong le ma
• As far as the eye can see: Yi wang wu ji, literally "look afar no bound"
• Ass-kicking killer: Xiong can sha shou
• Attributing an unfortunate longshot occurrence: Yeh lu jwo duo luh jwohn whei jian gui, literally "do enough nighttime travels and one will eventually see a ghost"; also a warning of future retribution.
• Awesome: Gao gan, literally "high pole"
• AWOL: Kai xiao chai

B

• Baboon's arse: Fei fei pi gu
• Baboon's arse crack: Fei fei de pi yan
• Bastard: Hun dan, literally "rotten egg"
• Boss or operator of a business: Lao ban; Lao ban ni'un for a female boss or proprietor's wife. Also informal appellation for acquaintances.
• Big Brother, Older Brother: Ge or Ge-Ge, the former is more intimate and connotes a blood relation.
• Big stupid pile of stinking meat: Yi dwei da buen chuo roh
• Big Sister, Older Sister: Jie or Jei-Jei
• Blessing on you: Zhu fu ni
• Blindside or conspire against someone secretly: Fahn leong jian, literally "shoot a cold arrow"
• Bon Appetit!: Nin chi hao
• Boss: Lao ban. Also informal appellation for acquaintances.
• Boss (Female): Lao ban ni'un. Also informal appellation for acquaintances.
• Bottoms up: Gan bei, literally "dry cup"
• Brilliant: Jing cai
• Browncoat: Zong yi

C

• Cheap floozy: Jian huo
• Check it out, inspect: Jian cha
• Check at once: Ma shang jian cha
• Cheering or urging someone on: Jia you, literally "add fuel", equivalent of "go (name)!" in English.
• Cheers: Gan bei, literally "dry cup"
• Chinese/Mandarin language: Jwohn Guo Hua
• Cool: Ku
• Come in, enter: Qing jin
• Commit blunder of great magnitude: Bie wu long
• Complete disarray or sheer pandemonium: Tian fuhn di fu, literally "sky tumbles while earth turns over"
• Completely useless: Tian di wu yong
• Congratulations: Gong xi
• Conniving or scheming person: Gui tou gui nao, literally "ghost head ghost brain"
• Consistently useless: Jing-chang mei yong de
• Cow Dung: Niu shi
• Cow Manure: Niu fen
• Cow sucking: Xi niu
• Crap: Gou shi
• Crap: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
• Crazy dog in love with its own feces: Ai chr jze se duh fohn diang gou
• Cursing: Ma jung hwa, literally "chastise with dirty words"
• Cute: Ke ai ,ass hold

D

• Damn, my god: Ai ya
• Damn it: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
• Danger/Dangerous: Wei xian
• Dangerous person or animal: Wei xian dong wu
• Darling: Bao bei
• Daydream or wishful thinking: Bai ri meng
• Deserving of bad consequence or fate: Hwo gai
• Despicable: Kuh wu
• Do something for nothing in return, or wasted endeavor without a payoff: Yee yan, literally "a charity show".
• Done for: Wan dan, literally "finished (cooked) egg"
• Don't worry: Fang xin
• Dumbass: Chun, descriptive literally "retarded"

E

• Earthshaking: Jing tian dwohn di, literally "startle the sky and shake the earth"
• Empty Threat: Da chong wu dan, literally "big gun, no bullet"
• Engage a monkey in a feces-hurling contest: Gen hou zi bi diu shi
• Enough of this nonsense: Gou huang tang
• Everyone shut up!: Ni men dou bi zui!
• Everything under the sky: Tian shia, can be used to allude to the world or the universe
• Excrement: Mi tian gong
• Explosive diarrhea of an elephant: Da xiang bao zha shi de la du zi
• Extraordinarily clever: Gao gan, literally "high pole"
• Extraordinarily impatient Buddha: Zhen mei nai xing de Fo zu

F

• Fear nothing but (fill in the blank): Tian bu pa, di bu pa, tze pa...
• Fellow: Ja hwo
• Female companion or girlfriend: Ma tze, a somewhat derogatory slang; add Dow in front for "looking for a girlfriend"
• Filthy fornicators of livestock: He chu-sheng za-jiao de zang-huo!
• Fire!: Kai huo (as in shooting), fen huo (as in starting)
• Fire at will or terminate with extreme prejudice: Da kai sa jeh, meaning "breaking the Buddhist vow against killing"
• Flat-chested: Hur bao dan, slang, literally "eggs cooked sunny-side up"
• Foiled or ruined at the last moment: Soh ya fei tian, expression, literally "a cooked duck flies away"
• Fool: Sha gua, literally "stupid melonhead", or ben dan, literally "stupid egg"
• Friend, pal, buddy: Peng you
• Frog-humping son of a bitch: Qing wa cao de liu mang
• Fuck!: Ta ma de! (vulgar term)

G

• Gang, crew, or confederate of diehards: Se duhng
• Gang or faction leader: Da gher ga for male, da jeh da for female, slang
• Garbage: Le se
• Get bold or audacious: Fang dan, literally "release courage"
• Get lost: Kwai jio kai
• Go all out, hold nothing back: Ping ming, literally "fight for one's life"
• Go away: Kuai qu hen yuan de di fang, literally "go far away very fast"
• Go die: Chui se
• Go to hell: Chui se, literally "go die"
• God knows what / name of all that's sacred: Tian xiao de
• Goddamn monsters: Tian sha de e mo
• Good: Hao
• Good-for-nothing: Bu lang bu you
• Good journey or bon voyage: Yi lu shun feng, or yi lu ping an
• Good luck: Ju hao yun
• Great: Da bian hua, literally "big change"
• Greetings: Nihao

H

• Handsome: Shuai
• Happy development or fortuitous turn of event: How shi sung chung, literally "a good show's about to start", can be used sarcastically
• Have desires above one's social/financial position, or beyond one's ability to realize: Lai huh ma shi yong tze tian e zoh, literally "for a toad to think of eating a swan"
• Hell: Gui, literally "ghost"
• Hell, underworld: Di yu
• Hello: Nihao
• Hey!: Wei
• Holy testicle (exclamation): Shen sheng de gao wan
• Home wrecking tramp: Hu li jing, literally "fox spirit"
• Horrible old tyrant: Ke-wu de lao bao jun
• Hurry or make haste: Gan mang

I

• I don't believe my eyes!: Wo bu shin wo dah yan jing
• I neither see nor hear you: Wo dui ni bu wen bu jian
• I'm sorry: Dui bu qi
• Idiot: Ben dan, literally "stupid egg", or chun zhu, literally "retarded pig"
• Imminent Doom: Wan dan, literally "finished (cooked) egg"
• Impossible: Bu ke neng
• Impressive display or visage but no substance: Da chong wu dan, literally "big gun, no bullet"
• In the doghouse: Leng gong, literally "a cold palace," which is where an emperor confines those concubines who have fallen out of favor
• In that case, nevermind: Na mei guan xi

J

• Jerk: Hun dan, literally "rotten egg"
• Junk: Fei wu
• Just our luck: Zhen dao mei

K

• Kick me in the butt: Ti wo de pi gu

L

• Leader of a criminal operation: She tou, literally "snakehead", derogatory.
• Leave one to his own fate: Tze sh'un tze mieh
• Let me repeat myself: Wuo jai jeong yi chi
• Let's take a deep breath: Yi qi shen hu xi
• Life support failure: Shuhn ming shi t'wohn gu jong
• Like hell/In your dreams: Jian ta de gui, literally "see his ghost", or jian gui which likely means "seeing ghosts"
• Little Brother: Di or Di-Di
• Little Sister: Mei or Mei-Mei
• Long time no see: Hao joh bu jian
• Loopy in the head: Feng le, literally "insane"

M

• Male companion or boyfriend: Kai tze, also a somewhat derogatory slang
• Make a big mistake: Bie wu long
• Make an example of someone: Sha ji gei hou kan, literally "kill a chicken in front of a monkey"
• Merciful Buddha protect us: Ren ci de Fo zu qing bao you wo men
• Merciful God, please take me away: Ren ci de shang di, qing dai wo zou
• Merciless Bastard: Leng xue za zhong, literally "cold-blooded mixed-breed"
• Merciless Hell: Ai ya tian a!
• Mind your own business: Guan ni ziji de shi
• Miss: xiao jie, literally "little lady." Follows a name when addressing a known person, so River Tam would be addressed as Tam River xiao jie, or simply Tam xiao jie.
• Mister: xian sheng, literally "born before me." Follows a name when addressing a known person, so Simon Tam would be addressed as Tam Simon xian sheng, or simply Tam xian sheng.
• Monkey raping: Qiang bao hou-zi de
• Monkey's butt: Hou-zi de pi-gu
• Moron: Ben dan, literally "stupid egg", or chun zhu, literally "retarded pig"
• Mother of God: Wo de ma
• Mother of God and all her crazy nephews: Wo de ma he ta de fen kuang de wai sheng dou
• Motherless goat of all motherless goats: Gao yang zhong de gu yang
• Muddled, Mixed-up, Confused: Wu tou wu nao, literally "without a head or a brain"

N

• No problem: Mei wen ti
• No way: Cai bu shi
• (a) Nobody: Wu ming shao zu, literally "nameless little footsoldier"
• Nonsense, rubbish, superfluous words: Fei hua
• Not advised: Quan gao bu yi
• Not enough: Bu gou, or Hai bu gou for "not enough yet"
• Not good: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
• Not keeping a rendezvous: Fang ge zi, literally "release a pigeon" but insinuating not picking up the bird at the destination.
• Not much of a choice between the two: Ban jin ba liang
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained: Bu ru hu xue yan de hu zi, literally "how can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair"
• Now, immediately: Ma shang
• Nuts: Shiang Jing Ping, or just Shiang Jing; Fah Shiang Jing for "going nuts"
• Nuts: Kuang zhe de, literally "crazy"

O

• Oddball or Goof: Chai Neow
• Of course: Dang ran
• Oh, this is a happy development: O, zhe zhen shi ge kuai le de jin zhan
• Oh God, no: Lao tian, bu
• Oh my God: Wo de tian a
• Okay: Hao
• Old: Lao
• Old friend: Lao peng you
• Old man / husband: Lao gong
• Old lady / wife: Lao po
• One must be ruthless to be great: Wu du bu zhong fu, literally "a person without poison is not a great man"
• Out of touch with reality: Bi mu se ting, "shut one's eyes and stop up one's ears"
• Outdo someone or doing one better: Dao-gao-yee-chi moh-gao-yee-juhn, expression, literally "the solution advances a yard, the problem advances a mile"
• Over my dead body: Chu fei wo si le

P

• Pal: Lao xiong, "old chap", between male friends
• Panda urine: Xiong mao niao
• Paranoid, extremely suspicious: Bei gong she ying, literally "mistaking the reflection of a bow in the cup for a snake"
• Pathetic wretch: Bei bi xiao ren, literally "shameless little dirty person"
• Peon: Wu ming shao zu, literally "nameless little footsoldier"
• Petty: Suo xi
• Prehistoric: Lao Diu Ya, literally "so old as to lose all teeth"
• Pig's Sty: Zhu fuen chse
• Pile of sun-baked dog poo: Ri shao gou shi bing
• Plain, bland, bare: Yong chwen mien, slang taken from the namesake generic, flavorless noodle dish.
• Please be quiet: Qing an jing yi dien
• Pool of Excrement: F'n Zse
• Pool of pig droppings: Zhu fuen chse
• Posterior, bottom, butt: Pi gu
• Precious: Bao bei

R

• Real man, manly man, gentleman: Nan zi han
• Really Dangerous: Wei xian, more poetic, wo hu chung long, which is "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" and expression for something dangerous.
• Remorseless harridan: Bu hui hen de po fu
• Retreat, run away: Jio weh sung chiuh, phrase summarizing the last of the Chinese "36 Stratagems", which extols the virtue of fleeing to fight another day.
• Ridiculously strange, illogical or nonsensical: Mo ming qi miao, literally "not understanding the peculiarity"
• Ruined, finished: Wan dan le
• Ruthless or savage beast of a person: Ching soh

S

• Scoundrel: Huai dan, literally "bad egg"
• Screw him/her running: Gun ta jwo lu
• Screw you: Qu ni de
• Shameless Hussy: Meh lian duh jyah ji, literally "faceless bastard prostitute"
• Shiny, awesome, fantastic: Jahn!
• Shit on my head! (or another expletive): Ai ya, huai le!
• Shut up: Bi zui
• Shut up (as in, 'Get out' or 'yeah right'): Hu che
• Shut up, all of you!: Ni men dou bi zui!
• Shut up and make us wealthy: Bi zui, rong wo men fa cai
• Shut up, you inconsiderate schoolboys!: Bi zui, nin hen bu ti tie de nan sheng!
• Sir: Da yeh. When used as a nobility, Nuhn Jwei, following the name.
• Small fry: Wu ming shao zu, literally "nameless little footsoldier"
• Smelled a fart: Wen guo pi
• So guilty as to deserve a thousand deaths: Jwei gai wang se
• SOB: Wang ba dan, or gou neong yung de for a more literal and vicious translation.
• Speak now and quickly: Yo hua kuai so
• Speaking without a clue: Xia hua, literally "blind talk"
• Splendid: Jing cai
• Stop talking: Ju kou
• Stubborn disciplinarian: Pian zhi de jie cha yuan
• Stupid: Yu ben de
• Stupid son of a drooling whore and monkey: Liu kou shui de biao zi he hou zi de ben er zi
• Stupid inbred sack of meat: Ben tian sheng de yi dui rou
• Sweetheart: Bao bei
• Swindle: Guai
• Suicidal idea: Zu sha zhu yi
• Surrender, give up: Tou xiang

T

• Take care, stay healthy: Bao zhong, literally "maintain weight"
• Talk nonsense: Shia suo
• Teacher: Lao shi
• Thanks: Xie xie
• There's nothing in this plan that isn't horrific: Zhe ge ji hua zhen ke pa
• Things never go smooth: Hao yun bu lai, huai yun bu jwo, literally "good luck don't come, bad luck don't leave"
• Time out!: Yi qi shen hu xi, literally "Let's take a deep breath"
• To throw in a monkey wrench: Gwai ma jiao, literally "twist a horse's legs (while it's galloping)"
• Too bad: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
• Trouble, problem, complication: Ma fan
• Troublemaker: Wan nao
• Tyrant, iron-fisted ruler: Ba wang
• Ugly or perverted person: Zhu Bajie, insult taken from the name of the hoggish, lecherous character in the popular Chinese folktale, "Journey to the West"

U

• Understand: Dong, dong ma for "understand?" dong le ma for "are we clear here?"
• Unnecessarily complicating something, or overdoing it: Hua she tian zu, literally "draw a snake and add feet to it"
• Urine-soaked demons (or something to the effect): Niao shi de du-gui

V

• Very: Fei chang
• Violent lunatic: Xiong meng de kuang ren
• Vixen: Hu li jing, literally "fox spirit"

W

• Wah!: Wa, an exclamation. (Does NOT mean the sound of vomiting, as some have suggested.)
• Wait/hold on a second: Deng yi miao
• Warning someone against doing things 'the hard way': Jing zhou bu chi chi fa zhou, literally "choosing to sip the wine of penalty over that of respect"
• Watch your back: Zhen ta ma yao ming. Zhu yi. Literally "this is pretty damned dangerous. Pay attention"
• Water: Shui
• We will enjoy your silence now: Bai tuo, an jing yi dian
• We're in big trouble: Ai ya wo men wan le
• Weak-ass sauce: Lan dan jiang, literally "rotten egg sauce"
• What?: Shen me
• What is that?: Na shi shen me?
• What is this?: Zhe shi shen me?
• What a mess: Zao gao, literally "spoiled cake"
• What is this garbage?: Zhe shi shen me lan dong xi?
• Whores in hell!: Ta shi suo you di yu de diao zi de ma!, literally "she is the mother of all prostitutes in hell"
• Whores of SOBs: Wang ba dan de biao zi
• Wonderful!: Pai an jiao jue, literally "slap the table and shout with praise"
• Why don't you tell the cow about its beautiful eyes?: Ni gao su na niu ta you shuang mei-mu?

Y

• Yes, affirmative: Shi a
• You don't deserve it: Ni bu ying de zhe ge, or Ni bu gou ge
• You fink/wretch/etc: Ni hun qiu
• You want a bullet right in your throat?: Ni yao wo kai qiang
• You wanna die?: Ni zhao si ma?
• You're all idiots: Ni men dou shi sha gua, literally "all of you are foolish"
• Young one: Nian qing de, or ying chi, slang for underaged (literally "infant teeth")