Daily Chinese Words That Have EXTRA Meanings | Chinese Euphemisms

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you all for the 30K subscribers!! ✨ I feel so blessed to be able to share with you my knowledge of the Chinese language. And you have given me so much valuable feedback and inspiration. Thank you especially for sharing my content so that others can join this supportive Chinese-learning community. I really appreciate it! 謝謝你們（谢谢你们）！ - Are there any similar euphemisms in your own language? Feel free to share them down below! 💛

[@edreeyannaprestinorcino4439]

You're my favorite Mandarin Teacher, Grace! 😍😘🤧💜

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

@@edreeyannaprestinorcino4439 My pleasure! :D

[@mushahidhussain623]

You sent me your WhatsApp number please I want to come to your country you help me please I am from Pakistan

[@PhuongPham-hb8fg]

Thanks a lot for your sharing. I have learned so much from your channel. Keep it up please❤❤

[@jonathan3931]

Hello from Mexico😊👋

[@hiddenknowledge6333]

Such a professional attitude while talking about subjects most Chinese youtube channels don't teach us about. Important for all learners to know these things!

[@AndrewVanLare]

This is the kind of stuff you can't get from a textbook. 谢谢你!

[@jcl8028]

books are for old people. her channel is a living book. it even replied us !

[@Bayesic]

The aunt example is really interesting cause in English, there's a similar euphemism. It's more of a joke, but if a girl were on her period you could say her great aunt Flo came to visit (since Flo sounds like flow, i.e. menstrual flow)

[@Ferunetto]

I'm glad your channel appeared in my recommendations. it's a true hidden gem. Keep going! 加油~

[@skylarshines7520]

Ah yes..Add oil. (This is a joke I already know it means to keep going)

[@mioVmio]

Really interesting content.. gives the sense of the language, 谢谢

[@maximvazhov6904]

It's do sweet that our Guo laoshi goes as far as to write subtitles in both traditional and simplified Chinese

[@xinxiong6986]

This is great stuff! You don't find this in a regular dictionary. Thank you!! 😁👍

[@nimolyi1256]

你好！我来自柬埔寨的金边，我刚才跟随你的视频，很有意思，我学中文一年了，但是我只能明白简单的，我看过你所有的视频以后，我明白得多；谢谢美人 :)

[@coreywright1604]

欸，妳是個解釋語言的天才

[@tanchongsoo3114]

I have only started to watch your videos recently to improve my Chinese. They are really useful and helpful. Thank you, Grace, for the wonderful videos and keep up the good work!

[@svitlana_sheludiakova]

Thank you for your video! I only started learning Chinese a few months ago and your videos make it much easier for me 🙏😊♥️ 谢谢你

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Svitlana Sheludiakova I’m glad the videos are helpful for you! You’re welcome!

[@MishimaToshiro]

謝謝 😂

[@verenaschweizer8148]

Best channel to learn Chinese! I have just started to learn this amazing language and your channel is soooooo helpful

[@primafacie5029]

Great to see Taiwanese creators doing Mandarin content! 我也能練注音符號

[@Coccinelf]

That was really helpful to have seen this video a few weeks back because I'm watching The King of Romance right now and all this 炒飯 talk was crazy.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Coccinelle 😂😂

[@Li.Siyuan]

I love all these types of lessons - really useful, thank you Grace 😊

[@donlert]

this is by far the best channel ive found for learning mandarin. thank youuu!!

[@georgeherzog5929]

I love the inclusion of linguistic realities. Grace goes beyond recycling basics. And this presentation was tastefully done, not pandering clickbait.

[@maxford4922]

谢谢老师。每一次看你视频都能学几句课本没有的生词。

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Jon Petruch 不客氣！很高興你學到了新東西！（不客气！很高兴你学到了新东西！）:D

[@confach]

台湾人不用“视频”这个用词。他们说“影片”

[@rodgerspenda3207]

@@confach 什么叫影片，顺便一下，台湾是什么东西？🤔🤔

[@rodgerspenda3207]

@@confach 没有吧，但我还不知道他们的条件。你是在台湾吗？

[@marusiakiseleva9761]

非常感谢你！你最棒的中文老师💛

[@lloriew195]

Literally the best educational chinese channel! Among all the intricate details you always incorporate in your videos, I love being able to see how the characters look like in their traditional form even though I'mlearning the simplified version. Thank you for the quality content you make ❤❤❤ 加油!

[@yoonwady7864]

Wow! !! really interesting. I really didn`t know yellow colour uses in that way of saying. Thank u Grace.

[@陳庭萱-k6c]

Grace很用心！看你的教學是享受

[@安-y1j]

No idea why but I am completely fluent in Chinese - in fact, I am Chinese.. but I still watched all her videos~ they’re so interesting for some reason even though I already know everything 😂

[@Travelingjoe]

謝謝！很棒的內容. I'm taking the TOCFL in January, so your channel has been really helpful and a more relaxing way to study 😄

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

哈囉！很高興你喜歡我的影片😊 Good luck with your exam!

[@liuyangx2]

加油！！

[@duongtin3258]

Lol, i have so much fun learning from your channel. And to this video, your content and cinematography is so well- developed! 谢谢 Grace 大姐! 你的视频对我挺有帮助的，等待你下个内容，我等不了啊😆😆😆

[@keatslau9026]

Very good

[@obnoxiouscommenter6194]

Because of light novels, quite familiar with cooking rice

[@mathamour]

We use the same expression in Korea. When I can't speak bluntly 那个=그 거=그 것=that

[@张蛋疼]

About die/death/epic fail, a joking way to say is 凉了（liang2 le） literally means "(body) cold already".

[@thomastoseland7113]

谢谢你，老师 Grace. I have subscribed.

[@youtubeuser1353]

You are amazing! 太有用了😌

[@GuranPurin]

I think these skits are the best parts of these lessons XD

[@ariamaze9081]

God las month you had 10.000 subs and now you over 30 😱 girl you are hitting it! Congrat you deserved it and more...

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thanks Aria! 💕

[@HenryNgo]

You make it so easy and helpful. Thanks!

[@rosalitawu2673]

Grace真的好認真！謝謝你！！！

[@Myautumnpages]

So happy to see the 注音!! Thanks for another great video. It would be awesome if you did a video all in Chinese sometimes too ^^

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Hi Christina! Thanks! I've made a video all in Chinese, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goCme6Fmj7eliK8 Feel free to check it out! ;)

[@chiddyx3162]

this video is so good, very informational and professional but in a way where i feel comfortable thank u so much for this video! it was so helpful

[@Jan-yr7bt]

Already wrote you on IG but I need to say again that this video is so informative and interesting!!! I hope I can learn more of these once I'm in Taiwan. ☺️

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you Jan! You can definitely learn more when you come to Taiwan ;)

[@ryanchau2236]

我看著 ”想見你“ 的時候，有一個女生在洗手間。她朋友的男找到她了，後來問 ”你頭疼嗎？還是吃壞了肚子？哦，是那個。。。“ Or something like that, it was pretty funny seeing 那個 in action and realizing what was happening at the start of your video 哈哈哈

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Yay! glad that you can understand it now :D

[@Silvia-rk2sn]

谢谢您老师很努力给我们很多影片！真的我学多啦。。 请老师继续努力哦！！ 我会等老师的未来影片。 冲啊！

[@saurabh7706]

Really helpful good content

[@bagu4388]

Thank you! This was very useful!

[@shaunaidrus6965]

谢谢老师， 说实话我没想到那词"炒饭"有其它的意思哈哈

[@kokolexx]

很有意思

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

耶 謝謝（谢谢）Alex! ;)

[@laff8147]

Could you do a lesson on 有没有 VS 是不是？

[@watchdemfools3420]

Great topic, all the examples are highly useful and frequently heard. Very smooth explanation;-) Just an idea for a future topic could be explaining a popular song. 2 songs I used to listen to over and over are below 張震嶽 A-Yue - 愛的初體驗 王力宏 Leehom Wang - 龍的傳人

[@Weejee456]

woooah what ice cream is that in the beginning, looks so good 😋

[@ssrm67]

🤣🤣🤣🤣why dude!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Hahaha that's milk ice cream lol

[@lucashuang1320]

Thanks for another lesson! In a future lesson, could you discuss that 雪花飄飄 北風蕭蕭 song？😀

[@aynazsyzd8537]

Thank you Grace you are very teacher 💚❤💜💛

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you Aynaz! You always come to watch my videos as soon as I upload them!

[@aynazsyzd8537]

@@GraceMandarinChinese yes ❤我爱你💜❤💜❤💜❤💜❤💜❤💜

[@godsownoba5972]

I have learnt a lot

[@ЛевПарицкий]

You're breathtaking!! 😎 Awesomes lessons!! Не понимаю, каким образом, мне и на английском всë понятно в ваших видео, хотя я английский очень плохо знаю)

[@mocchan1386]

In Spanish we have lots of sayings involving Chinese people or China. For instance: 1. Esto es un cuento chino (lit. This is a Chinese fairytale). Used when something is hard to believe. 2. Me suena a chino (lit. This sounds like Chinese to me). When we can't understand what other people are saying because the topic is very complicated. 3. Esto es trabajo de chinos (lit. This is a Chinese people work). It is used when something (usually artistic or handicrafted) is very elaborate or has lots of details.

[@moonnight0531]

In Spain , people say Chiste Verde @_@ right?

[@mocchan1386]

@@moonnight0531 Yes, exactly! And we say 'viejo verde' to refer to an old man that has sexual interest in young girls (not a pedophile).

[@moonnight0531]

Mocchan y un dicho :algo más raro que un perro verde 😉 qué tiene que ver con Verde ..

[@mocchan1386]

@@moonnight0531 True! And when you are late we say: a buenas horas mangas verdes!

[@meiswos7]

I really like this

[@Anna-hz5sr]

Thank you, the content is awesome! Could you speak more Chinese? Maybe explain in Chinese with English subtitles

[@elnawaldemar4686]

你可以解释“则”的用法吗？

[@lithbcyes4201]

I wonder what my sister thought of me when i was watching this video lol Im only a begginer, but 谢谢老师！

[@KingTiger10588]

Wow this is some solid content! 👍👍👍

[@funkiratz13]

Oh i got one! When we go hiking in Taiwan, it's common to hear someone announce there's gold (黃金) on the trail when they see dog poop!

[@philg4678]

Do you have a pdf of these statements?

[@kenneth5231]

很漂亮的Grace老师、你的视频真牛了！

[@mindywang5561]

你选的角度不错

[@hawks3109]

Thanks for this video! This will help in situations where I would have directly translated the saying without realizing it.. now time to watch it a few times so I can remember all of it.

[@8.20foodadventure9]

As a native speaker I just don''t realize how many of 那个 or metaphors I use just because it's a sensitive topic, one thing came at the top of my head was when Chinese want to refer to some serious sickness like cancer 癌症 people tend to just say 那个 and you really have to udnerstand the content to be able to understand what 那个was referring to. We are doing videos with Chinese and English subtitle and would love to get some support =) Thank you and good luck to all you Chinese learners.

[@каоримиядзоно-ы1щ]

Большое спасибо, узнала много нового!

[@rizwan3147]

Fantastic very beautiful

[@DaXia333]

老师你好，我想问你一个我挺好奇的问题。你英语这么好肯定是专门学过的吧。假设你在中国跟一个学中文的美国人谈恋爱。他想提高他的中文水平，你想提高你的英文水平。刚开始你们可能会说好隔天英文中文这类的，可是这样持续下去时间长了就会开始有点烦了。最后你觉得你们会讲中文比较多还是英语比较多？你更希望在家里跟男朋友讲中文还是英文？ ^_^ 谢谢

[@bluesSGL]

Yellow as a euphemism is similar to blue in English but blue is a little old fashioned

[@raffazapradityasuherman8923]

3:10 IJBOLLLLLL your examples are so funny im happy to learn from you sjdjskkdkdkf

[@JasonEyermann]

I teach English on the mainland of China and I asked my students about chaofan as I saw this a few months ago on another video( I teach adults) and they had no idea what I was talking about so I guess chaofan only means to have sex in Taiwan. Now it’s a common joke in my class. Everytime I want to say have sex I say Chaofan. Always gets a laugh. I guess you could have also mentions eating someone’s Toufu and little brother and little sister.

[@perfectstudents8361]

Many phrases are specific only to Taiwan only or mainland China only, especially for informal slangs. Just like for "video", she said "yingpian", while in China it's "shipin".

[@صينياتنجاح]

很有意思！

[@HaswellCore]

I think this video is 惊艳

[@issolomissolom3589]

Interesting enough number four on your list is euphemism for death In the japanese culture number four is considered as a bad omen for death as number four and death have the same pronunciation In some hospitals and hotels they even skip room (4)

[@moss9642]

In Chinese 4 sounds like death too

[@chithanhnguyen6580]

I really confuse the sounds j,q,x and c,z,s. I saw the video you talk on this but still not understand. Could you make another video talking specifically. Thank a great deal. From Vietnam.

[@chithanhnguyen6580]

Ya. I tried a lot of times that way. it is just different from the vowels but the consonants are the same. They are quite similar. Whether Vietnamese and Chinese have many common points in pronunciation.

[@tronix4732]

Very useful :) 0:00 好像是小孩子 😂 I laughed so hard at 炒饭 😂. 3:14 : 好可爱 :p Why fried rice btw?^^

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Haha Thanks Tronix! Actually I don't know its origin, I'll have to look it up :P

[@tronix4732]

@@GraceMandarinChinese Oh ok ^^

[@agnesfonmarten]

What about the word 給？ There’s this drama character who said 給我啊 in an 18+ context, so the meaning is obvious. But is it a commonly used expression or does it sound odd?

[@peters8699]

月經的那個例子蠻實用，但比把委婉瑜都聽懂還重要的是當你女友那個真的來了，那怎麼辦！照顧得不好的話，你就下地獄了 也許下一支影片你可以舉例，比如用中文怎麼說：“寶貝我真的很愛你，就是你這幾天都變得很可怕，我怕煮選錯飯給你吃就死定了” 以上的例子跟我個人日常生活毫無關係的 :)

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Peter Stebbins 😂😂

[@MaRi-ql9hk]

日本語とほぼ同じだね！覚えやすい

[@4rifr0mthe3nd]

the shirt describes her so well ^^

[@NoName-pz1bq]

舒服了 😊

[@katsminkyo]

We also says 「做那種事 zhuo na zhong shi」(lit. do that kind of things) to refer to having intercourse 😂😂

[@16yen]

Great video as always! Very useful! May I ask, at 2:16 , why do you use "結果" to say "but" ? If I remember correctly, "結果" means "result" right? Thanks!

[@nickylam-hong6845]

结果 also means the outcome of something！so the outcome of the period is that she cant attend the game！

[@16yen]

@@nickylam-hong6845 ooh i see now! Thanks a lot for explaining ☺️

[@jesse7680]

Could it be like ‘turns out’?

[@alexbautista467]

{... What would I do without this content! 💖

[@martinphipps2]

Oh snap! Like in the movie Sixth Sense when the protagonist's wife says "Why did you leave us?" and the protagonist is like "Leave? What? Am I dead?"

[@gerailtonc_s7790]

does anyone know the title of that movie? 05:00

[@channuying]

I too am curious since it looked very familiar to me

[@seneca-c5u]

谢谢！

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

不客氣（不客气）！:D

[@VicAndRoll]

「還把我的電腦借走」 笑死我啦！

[@Li.Siyuan]

In Russian, yellow is used to refer to the gutter press.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Oh! So it’s a bit similar to Chinese 😳

[@martinphipps2]

You: 你怎麼這麼黃啊？ Me: But you said you weren't angry!

[@andrizabintangp4884]

Almost all ways are same except number 5,, by the way I am from south east asian. It is located in a islands country. Thanks in advance.

[@claudiovillone1897]

in Italy "yellow" is related to investigation novels ahahahahah

[@S_T_fania]

ahhh italiano che aprende Cinese?????? diventiamo amiciiii

[@horsermchead2504]

In the USA it is a racist anti-East Asian term.

[@azizahsan6297]

Great Video, Very Informative. Save a lot of embarrassment in the future👍👍👍

[@razorkevz8326]

Now I will understand everything my Chinese friends say . I will not tell them🤣

[@TulekBehar]

那個來了。 黃色笑話 小明問爸爸： 小明：「爸爸，為何男女辦事時，只有女爽，男不爽呢？」 爸爸：「這跟挖鼻孔一樣。挖鼻孔只有鼻孔爽，手指當然不爽！」 小明：「為何女人被強暴不自在呢？」 爸爸：「你走在路上，有人硬要挖你鼻孔，你會自在嗎？」 小明：「為何女人那個來時，不想辦事呢」？ 爸爸：「你流鼻血時，你喜歡人挖你鼻孔嗎？」 小明：「為何許多男女辦事時，都不戴套子呢？」 爸爸：「你喜歡戴手套挖你鼻孔嗎？」

[@jazz9807]

Anothrr euphemism in english for someone dying is saying they "passed away"

[@lienlien5457]

你实实在在真的很顺眼 长得很美，又白又漂亮

[@piepie3487]

Teacher grace is my crush 🥰🥰🥰

[@ailtonks]

what is this alien language above in chinese characteres? hahahaha but the video is very good thanks for share it with us

[@LightKnight_Age_Of]

You do know that the first one absolutely sounds like...sth even more "extra"...right? Actually the 2nd one too....esp pronounced "neige". But I guess you did know that...

[@张蛋疼]

想起18年RDR2（荒野大镖客≈荒野大表哥）发售，有个段子说我大表哥来了，我请假去接待一下ᕦ(･ㅂ･)ᕤ