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In the 5th century, Chinese Buddhists used wei 穢 "dirty; vile; abominable; ugly" to denote "sin", and correspondingly, "the Buddhist 'paradise,' the place in which there is no sin" is called jingtu 淨土 "clean land; pure land". [1] The Buddhist notion of "sin", translated as Chinese zui, was explained in terms of karma and reincarnation ...
Various dictionaries provide different etymologies of the word chink; for example, that it originated from the Chinese courtesy ching-ching, [4] that it evolved from the word China, [5] or that it was an alteration of Qing (Ch'ing), as in the Qing dynasty.
A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.
Diu (Traditional Chinese: 屌 or 𨳒, Jyutping: diu2), literally meaning fuck, is a common but grossly vulgar profanity in Cantonese. In a manner similar to the English word fuck, diu2 expresses dismay, disgrace and disapproval. Examples of expressions include diu2 nei5! (屌你！ or 𨳒你！, fuck you!) and the highly offensive diu2 nei5 ...
Loanwords have entered written and spoken Chinese from many sources, including ancient peoples whose descendants now speak Chinese. In addition to phonetic differences, varieties of Chinese such as Cantonese and Shanghainese often have distinct words and phrases left from their original languages which they continue to use in daily life and sometimes even in Mandarin.
khí-kàn (Chinese: 起姦) = start scolding someone in vulgarity, start swearing; kàn kha-tshng (Chinese: 姦尻川) = sodomy, anal or oral sex; káu-kàn-tūi(Chinese: 狗姦懟 ) = to curse someone being fucked/raped by a dog; hō͘-káu-kàn-kàn leh (Chinese: 予狗姦姦咧) = to curse someone to be fucked by a dog
Chinaman (/ ˈ tʃ aɪ n ə. m ə n /) is a term referring to a Chinese man or person, or widely a person native to geographical East Asia or of perceived East Asian ethnicity. The term is noted as having pejorative overtones by modern dictionaries.
The Sanskrit word चीन] (Cina), meaning "China", was transcribed into various forms including 支那 (Zhīnà), 芝那 (Zhīnà), 脂那 (Zhīnà) and 至那 (Zhìnà).Thus, the term Shina was initially created as a transliteration of Cina, and this term was in turn brought to Japan with the spread of Chinese Buddhism.