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
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

1. (Mandarin, euphemistic) fuck your mother

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 草泥馬

1. (Mandarin) grass mud horse
2. (slang) alpaca