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((short description|Cantonese profanity, describing sexual intercourse))
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[[File:Diu1.svg|thumb|100px|The written form of ''diu'' commonly seen in Hong Kong]]
'''''Diu''''' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: [[Wikt:屌|屌]], [[Hong Kong]] coinage: [[Wikt:𨳒|𨳒]] [門+小], [[jyutping]]: diu2) is a common profanity in [[Standard Cantonese|Cantonese]]. It can be regarded as the Cantonese equivalent of the English ''[[fuck]]''.

==In classic Chinese==
''Diu'' is a word in the [[Cantonese language]]. It appears frequently in the text of the classic novel ''[[Water Margin]]'', and is written as [[Wikt:鳥|鳥]] (meaning "bird", pronounced niǎo in Mandarin and niu5 in Cantonese when used in this usual sense). It is used as an emphatic [[adjective]] with a function similar to the English "fucking", "bloody" or "god damned". For example,
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<big>((lang|zh-hant|武松指著蔣門神，說道：「休言你這廝'''鳥'''蠢漢！景陽岡上那隻大蟲，也只三拳兩腳，我兀自打死了！量你這個直得甚麼！快交割還他！但遲了些個，再是一頓，便一發結果了你廝！」))</big>''Water Margin'', Chp. 29
</blockquote>
''Diu'' means primarily the [[penis]]. It is written as 屌 when used in this sense, but usually as 鳥 when used as an emphatic adjective. For example, 
<blockquote>
<big>((lang|zh-hant|木寸、馬户、尸巾，你道我是個「村驢'''屌'''」？))</big>''[[Romance of the Western Chamber]]'' (((lang|zh|西廂記))), Act 5, Scene 3 (((lang|zh|第五本第三折)))
</blockquote>
((lang|zh|屌)) has its female equivalent [[Wikt:屄|屄]] (pronounced bī in Mandarin and hai1 in Cantonese) in the traditional Chinese written language. In the [[Qu (poetry)|Yuan Dynasty operas]], the word, meaning penis, is sometimes written as [[Wikt:頹|頹]]. For example,
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<big>((lang|zh-hant|我見了些覓前程俏女娘，見了些鐵心腸男子漢，便一生里孤眠，我也直甚'''頹'''！))</big>''Jiu Fengchen'' (((lang|zh|救風塵))), Act 1 (((lang|zh|第一折)))
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==In Hong Kong and Macau==
The written form ((lang|zh-hk|𨳒)) [((lang|zh|門))+((lang|zh|小))] is mainly seen in Hong Kong, although the younger generation use ((lang|zh-hk|屌)) for example on [[graffiti]]. In Cantonese, it is used as a [[transitive verb]] meaning to [[copulate]]. In a manner similar to the [[English language|English]] word [[fuck]], it is also used to express dismay, disgrace, disapproval and so on. For example, someone may shout "diu nei!" ("fuck you!" or "fuck off!") at somebody when he or she finds that other person annoying.

"Diu Nei Lo Mo!" (((lang|zh|屌你老母 or 𨳒你老母)), "fuck your mother")<ref>Hutton, Christopher and Bolton, Kingsley; A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang, page 95; University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu; 2005</ref> is a highly offensive profanity in Cantonese when directed against a specific person instead of used as a general exclamation. In contrast to the English phrase "fuck your mother", which indicates that the person being attacked commits sexual acts with his own mother, the Cantonese expression has the implied meaning of "I fuck your mother".

The form ((lang|zh|𨳒)) is absent in the [[Big-5]] [[character set]] on computers. The [[Government of Hong Kong]] has extended [[Unicode]] and the Big-5 character set with the [[Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set]] (HKSCS), which includes Chinese characters only used in Cantonese, including the [[Cantonese profanity|Five Great Profanities]]. The government explained that the reason for these characters being included is to allow for the [[Hong Kong Police]] to record criminal suspects' statements.  Consequently, these characters are now also in Unicode.

In Hong Kong Cantonese, ''yiu'' (((lang|zh|[[Wikt:妖|妖]]))), ''tiu'' (((lang|zh|[[Wikt:挑|挑]]))), ''siu'' (((lang|zh|[[Wikt:小|小]]))), ''chiu'' (((lang|zh|[[Wikt:超|超]]))), ''biu'' (((lang|zh|[[Wikt:表|表]]))), and ''hiu'' (((lang|zh|[[Wikt:曉|曉]]))) are all [[minced oath]]s for ''diu'', as they all rhyme with "iu".

==See also==
*[[Cantonese profanity]]
*[[Hong Kong Cantonese]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Robert S. Bauer and Paul K. Benedict (1997). ''Modern Cantonese Phonology''. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. ((ISBN|3-11-014893-5)). Part of the chapter 3 concerns the "bad" words in Cantonese.
*Kingsley Bolton and Christopher Hutton, "Bad boys and bad language: chou hau and the sociolinguistics of swearwords in Hong Kong Cantonese", in Grant Evans and Maria Tam ed. (1997). ''Hong Kong: the Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis''. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ((ISBN|0-7007-0601-1)).

==External links==
*((in lang|zh)) [https://web.archive.org/web/20040611212551/http://hk.geocities.com/xcantonese/  廣州話粗口研究網] 
*((in lang|ja)) [https://web.archive.org/web/20131213183044/http://hongkong.sakura.ne.jp/c-1.html 広東語の粗口]

[[Category:Culture of Hong Kong]]
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