火星文

Chinese

		Mars; to be outdated and unaware; to not know something that everyone else knows	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
trad. (火星文)		火星	文
simp. #(火星文)		火星	文

Etymology

The reference to Mars originated from a line in the 2001 comedy Shaolin Soccer: “Go back to Mars, the Earth is so dangerous.”

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huǒxīngwén

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fo² sing¹ man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huǒxīngwén
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥ ㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huǒsingwún
    • Wade–Giles: huo³-hsing¹-wên²
    • Yale: hwǒ-syīng-wén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huooshingwen
    • Palladius: хосинвэнь (xosinvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵ wən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fo² sing¹ man⁴
    • Yale: fó sīng màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fo² sing¹ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fo² xing¹ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔː³⁵ sɪŋ⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/

Noun

火星文

1. (Internet) Martian language; leetspeak (a style of writing in which Chinese-language text is represented by a variety of scripts and symbols, popular among some young people)