上巴

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Chinese

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up; on; on top
up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up
 
(suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish
(suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish; Palestinian, Palestine (abbrev.); Pakistan (abbrev.); Pascal (unit of pressure)
 
simp. and trad.
(上巴)

Etymology

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Coined by an Atayal man in an interview in Taiwan Indigenous Television's news report, in analogy with 下巴 (xiàba/xiàbā, chin), due to his lack of fluency in Mandarin Chinese.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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上巴

  1. (neologism, Internet slang, humorous) philtrum

Synonyms

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