In recent years, Chinese popular terms can be said to have invaded Taiwan in large numbers. Although language is used for communication and is not good or bad, some Taiwanese people may still not be used to it. However, some terms that you might think are native to Taiwan are actually from China. Recently, a “Chinese Buzzword Challenge” appeared on the Internet to test whether you can tell which terms are from China.
“Chinese Buzzword Challenge” web game introduction
This “Chinese Buzzword Challenge” is a web game launched by the readr.tw website. There are three short articles. There will be several Chinese terms in each article. See if you can distinguish them.
After entering the Chinese Buzzword Challenge web page, click “I want to challenge” below. These Chinese buzzword data are all from the well-known Dcard forum, which has been compiled for nearly 10 years and contains more than 3 million items:
Then you will enter the article. The top will prompt you how many Chinese words are in this article. You can circle the representatives with bottom lines. Most of them are Taiwanese words. You must find the words from China:
After being circled, it will appear in red. There are 5 articles in the first article. You must circle them all before you can see the answer:
The results will tell you how many answers you got right and how many you got wrong. I originally thought that all of them should be correct. After all, I browse a lot of information and write articles every day. Unexpectedly, I misjudged 2 words. The representative said that the 2 words I circled incorrectly were actually Taiwanese native terms:
Scroll down to see the explanation of each Chinese term and when it appeared. I didn’t expect that “Li Ma” comes from China. This term seems to have been completely Taiwanese, and it is very accustomed to using it. I guess many people are like me and think it is Taiwan:
Click to jump to the next level and you can read the next article. The next article has 7 Chinese terms:
If you think it’s good, you can also read readr.tw’s Chinese terminology report in detail, which also contains a lot of statistical data:
Like this Chinese terminology table on the Dcard forum, “best friend” has been used more than 6,000 times by 2020, and it will soon reach more than 5,000 times. The frequency of use is extremely high:
Source: KOCPC Chinese