草泥馬

See also: 草泥马

Chinese

		grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty	restrained; mud; paste restrained; mud; paste; pulp	horse; surname
trad. (草泥馬)		草	泥	馬
simp. (草泥马)		草	泥	马
alternative forms		⿱艹⿰馬尼／⿱艹⿰马尼 facetious ligature character
Literally: “grass mud horse”.

Alpacas

Etymology

Near-homophone of the profanity phrase 肏你媽／肏你妈 (cào nǐ mā, “fuck your mother”) in Mandarin, literally “grass mud horse”.

Coined circa 2009, when Internet users in Mainland China used 草泥馬／草泥马 instead of 肏你媽／肏你妈 (cào nǐ mā) to circumvent censorship. Pictures of alpacas are often used by later hoaxes to depict 草泥馬 as if it were a real horse-like animal.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǎonímǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄇㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cou² nai⁴ maa⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cǎonímǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˇ ㄋㄧˊ ㄇㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǎonímǎ
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻao³-ni²-ma³
    • Yale: tsǎu-ní-mǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaonimaa
    • Palladius: цаонима (caonima)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ni³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cou² nai⁴ maa⁵
    • Yale: chóu nàih máh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou² nai⁴ maa⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: cou² nei⁴ ma⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯³⁵ nɐi̯²¹ maː¹³/

Interjection

草泥馬

1. (Mandarin, euphemistic) fuck your mother

Noun

草泥馬

1. (Mandarin, slang) frustration; anger

   我心中有千萬隻草泥馬在奔騰。 [MSC, trad.]
   我心中有千万只草泥马在奔腾。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ xīnzhōng yǒu qiānwàn zhī cǎonímǎ zài bēnténg. [Pinyin]

   I am deeply frustrated. (literally "In my heart there are many Caonima galloping")

2. (slang) alpaca