Chongqing Hua (Chongqing Dialect) means the language spoken
by Chongqing locals living in its main urban areas – there's a big
differentiation between its other counties and regions; it belongs to Chengyu
(Chengdu and Chongqing) branch of southwestern Mandarin, it represents one of
the standard pronunciations in Sichuan Hua, and has more geographic application
as compared to Chengdu Hua. As Chongqing has been a city of migrations from
ancient times – the ratio of original Chongqing locals is no more than one
third; the migration was mainly from Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui, and it had absorbed some of their pronunciations into its own language system. Due
to the promotion of standard Mandarin, the original Chongqing Hua is spoken
less and less by the younger generation.
Chongqing Hua is also called Chongqing Yanzi(er), which has very
straight-forward meaning, is easy to follow, and actually many of its phrases
are quite amusing.
Yanzi pronunciation
samples
Chinese
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English
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Mandarin Pinyin
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Chongqing Hua
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街
|
street
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jiē
|
gāi
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解手
|
go to the toilet
|
jiĕ
shŏu
|
gǎi
sŏu
|
鞋子
|
shoes
|
xié zi
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hái zi
|
咸
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salty
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xiăn
|
hán
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敲门
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knock at the door
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qiāo mén
|
kāo mén
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叫花子
|
beggar
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jiào huā zi
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gào huā zi
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睡觉
|
go to sleep
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shuì jiào
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suì gào
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Yanzi phrase
samples
Chinese
|
English
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要得 yao de
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ok
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假打 jia da
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hypocritical
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撇脱 pie tuo
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convenient
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啥子/ 爪子 sa zi / zua zi
|
what
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晓得 xiao de
|
I know
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巴适 ba si
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nice, comfortable
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豁我 huo wo
|
lie to me
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踏雪 ta xue
|
despise
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打望 da wang
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go see pretty girls
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嘎嘎 ga ga
|
meat
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国孽 guo lie
|
quarrel, start a fight
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香音 xiang yin
|
cheap
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唐家沱 tang jia
tuo
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a place quite far from the city center, it usually is used in a sentence to
mean one’s business suffers a big loss
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刹一脚 sa yi jio
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stop there, pause
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说嘞些 suo lie xie
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Don’t mention it, no big deal
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偷油婆 tou you
po
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Thief of oil - cockroach
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扭到费 niu dao
fei
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Stubborn, insistent on something
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耙耳朵 pa er duo
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soft ears – afraid of wife
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麻麻鱼 ma ma yu
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spicy fish – be cheated
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不存在 bu cun
zai
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It’s ok, doesn’t matter
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假巴意思 jia ba yi
si
|
pretend to
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巴心不得 ba xin bu
de
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most desired
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