獅鳥

Chinese

		lion	bird
trad. (獅鳥)		獅	鳥
simp. (狮鸟)		狮	鸟

Etymology

From 私了 (si1 liu5, “to settle a matter privately”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shīniǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ ㄋㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ niu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shīniǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ ㄋㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shihniǎo
    • Wade–Giles: shih¹-niao³
    • Yale: shr̄-nyǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyneau
    • Palladius: шиняо (šinjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ ni̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ niu⁵
    • Yale: sī níuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ niu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ niu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ niːu̯¹³/

Verb

獅鳥

1. (Hong Kong, neologism, slang, of a pro-democracy protester) to extrajudicially punish a perceived opponent (which almost inevitably devolves into violence)

Usage notes

Memeified into a mythical creature that is a hybrid of a lion and a bird.