很黃很暴力

Chinese

		very; rather; quite	yellow	very; rather; quite	violence; brutality; force violence; brutality; force; violent; brutal; forceful
trad. (很黃很暴力)		很	黃	很	暴力
simp. (很黄很暴力)		很	黄	很	暴力
Literally: “very erotic very violent”.

Etymology

From the script of a 2007 staged interview from China Central Television set to justify the communist regime's internet purges, uttered by Zhang Shufan, an elementary schoolgirl. It backfired as the obviously staged nature of the interview from the discrepancy between the phrase's complexity and the interviewee's age attracted widespread parody of the phrase by mainland Chinese netizens.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hěn huáng hěn bàolì

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄣˇ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄏㄣˇ ㄅㄠˋ ㄌㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hěn huáng hěn bàolì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄣˇ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄏㄣˇ ㄅㄠˋ ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hěn huáng hěn bàolì
    • Wade–Giles: hên³ huang² hên³ pao⁴-li⁴
    • Yale: hěn hwáng hěn bàu-lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heen hwang heen bawlih
    • Palladius: хэнь хуан хэнь баоли (xɛnʹ xuan xɛnʹ baoli)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xən²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɑŋ³⁵ xən²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/

Phrase

很黃很暴力

1. (chiefly Mainland China, neologism, slang) sexually explicit and violent

See also

• 很好很強大／很好很强大 (hěn hǎo hěn qiángdà)
• 很傻很天真 (hěn shǎ hěn tiānzhēn)