The most commonly-used Chinese Internet abbreviation

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1. 666 liùliùliù

Sure, you know, 666 means that something or someone is really cool. It’s one of the way to express your admiration.
But do you know why people use exact 6 for expressing “cool” meaning?
The answer is simple, just because Chinese language has lots of homophone.
6 is pronounced like liù which is homophone to 流 liú (meaning to let you slip from the troubles ) and 牛niú( wow, cool).

There are some examples how you can use 666~

– I can speak 4 languages.
– Wow, 666, that’s awesome.

– My boyfriend gifted me a brilliant necklace!

– 666666, happy for you !

– Our teacher went for a business trip, so we don’t have classes for whole next week.

– 666, you are so lucky.

2. 555 wǔwǔwǔ

The pronunciation of 五(5) wǔ is same as 呜 wū( the sound of crying). It means that someone is crying very hard but in a humorous way. In fact, nothing really bad happened, kind of the way of complaining.

Example:

555，好朋友居然把我的生日忘记了，555好伤心啊！(555, hǎo péngyǒu jūrán bǎ wǒ de shēngrì wàngjìle,555 hǎo shāngxīn a! ) 

– 555, A good friend actually forgot about my birthday, 555 it’s so sad!

3. 520 wǔ'èr líng

5月20号 wǔ yuè èrshí hào（May 20th）is a holiday for couples, on this day they arrange romantic dates, give each other gifts to show their love. Moreover, on this day many couples want to organize their wedding, they believe it’s a special day and they can live happily with each other.

You can also say :

5201314 wǔ'èr líng yīsānyīsì = “我爱你一生一世” wǒ ài nǐ yīshēng yīshì = I will live you forever.

4. 八八六 bābāliù

From the begging it was just 八八 bābāwhich sounds similar to bye-bye .

Later it got 六 liù and became a nicer and cuter way to say bye-bye.

5. Some more abbreviation

39 sānjiǔ- thank you

8084 bāsì - Baby

065 líng liùwǔ - 原谅我 (yuánliàng wǒ) - forgive me

246 èrsìliù - 饿死了( è sǐle) - to be supeeeer hungry

58 bā bā - 晚安 (wǎn'ān) - good night

56 wǔ liù - 无聊 (wú liáo) - boring

48 sì bā - 是吧 (shì ba) - yes

687 liù bā qī - 对不起 (duì bu qǐ) - sorry

729 qī èr jiǔ - 去喝酒 (qù hē jiǔ) - go drinking

837 bā sān qī - 别生气 (bié shēng qì ) - do not be angry

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