塔利班

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (塔利班)		塔	利	班
simp. #(塔利班)		塔	利	班

Etymology

From English Taliban.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tǎlìbān

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚˇ ㄌㄧˋ ㄅㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taap³ lei⁶ baan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tǎlìbān
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚˇ ㄌㄧˋ ㄅㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tǎlìban
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻa³-li⁴-pan¹
    • Yale: Tǎ-lì-bān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Taalihban
    • Palladius: Талибань (Talibanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä²¹⁴⁻²¹ li⁵¹ pän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taap³ lei⁶ baan¹
    • Yale: taap leih bāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taap⁸ lei⁶ baan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tab³ léi⁶ ban¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːp̚³ lei̯²² paːn⁵⁵/

Proper noun

塔利班

1. Taliban

Noun

塔利班

1. (Hong Kong, often offensive) Nazi (one who imposes their views on others) [late 2000s]

   道德塔利班 [Cantonese]  ―  dou⁶ dak¹ taap³ lei⁶ baan¹ [Jyutping]  ―  moral police (literally, “ethics Taliban”)

   動漫塔利班／动漫塔利班 [Cantonese]  ―  dung⁶ maan⁶ taap³ lei⁶ baan¹ [Jyutping]  ―  anime fan who disdains Chinese localisations in any form (literally, “anime Taliban”)

   女權塔利班／女权塔利班 [Cantonese]  ―  neoi⁵ kyun⁴ taap³ lei⁶ baan¹ [Jyutping]  ―  feminazi (literally, “feminist Taliban”)

   • 2019, “#MeToo 之後：困局與出路 [What's Next After #MeToo?]”, in 平等點線面 [Equality Perspectives]‎^[1], 平等機會委員會 [Equal Opportunities Commission], page 3:

     今年5月，某傢俬店推出豆腐雪糕廣告，宣傳字句「只要你鍾意，隨時都可以嚟食我豆腐」引起網民熱議：有人直斥廣告低俗、不尊重性騷擾受害人；也有人形容批評者是「女權塔利班」、「玻璃心」，笑指「雪糕俾咗consent」。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     今年5月，某家俬店推出豆腐雪糕广告，宣传字句「只要你钟意，随时都可以嚟食我豆腐」引起网民热议：有人直斥广告低俗、不尊重性骚扰受害人；也有人形容批评者是「女权塔利班」、「玻璃心」，笑指「雪糕俾咗consent」。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     gam¹ nin⁴ ng⁵ jyut⁶, mau⁵ gaa¹ si¹ dim³ teoi¹ ceot¹ dau⁶ fu⁶ syut³ gou¹ gwong² gou³, syun¹ cyun⁴ zi⁶ geoi³ “zi² jiu³ nei⁵ zung¹ ji³, ceoi⁴ si⁴ dou¹ ho² ji⁵ lai⁴ sik⁶ ngo⁵ dau⁶ fu⁶” jan⁵ hei² mong⁵ man⁴ jit⁶ ji⁵: jau⁵ jan⁴ zik⁶ cik¹ gwong² gou³ dai¹ zuk⁶, bat¹ zyun¹ zung⁶ sing³ sou¹ jiu^5-2 sau⁶ hoi⁶ jan⁴; jaa⁵ jau⁵ jan⁴ jing⁴ jung⁴ pai¹ ping⁴ ze² si⁶ “neoi⁵ kyun⁴ taap³ lei⁶ baan¹”, “bo¹ lei^4-1 sam¹”, siu³ zi² “syut³ gou¹ bei² zo² kon⁶ sen¹”. [Jyutping]

     The Internet caught on fire when a furniture retailer published an ad for its tofu ice cream in May this year, sporting the tagline “Come and eat my tofu whenever you like” in Cantonese. (“To eat someone’s tofu” is a Cantonese slang meaning sexual harassment.) While some slammed it for being vulgar and disrespectful towards victims of sexual harassment, others described the critics as overreacting “feminist terrorists” and quipped, “the ice cream already gave consent.”

See also

• 塔綠班／塔绿班 (tǎlǜbān)