In Chinese, AI means cancer/cancerous

[KG5MVP]

I am recently learning Chinese, and it turns out that the word for cancer in Chinese is pronounced and written in English as Ai. And it turns out the origin of the word had nothing to do with Iverson!

[imdaman99]

Why the F are you learning chinese? You meet a Yum-Yum?

[jason816]

and a Chinese, me, is telling you AI doesn't stand for cancer in Chinese. Not in Mandarin, not in Cantonese, not in Taiwanese, not in Shanghai-nese, not in any Chinese dialect

[brantonli]

you mean 癌症? Well I'm not sure what it is in Mandarin, but I swear it isn't in Cantonese. but I would highly doubt it's 'ai' in mandarin either.


*hmm, just need to get shawbryant in here as well*

[KG5MVP]

and a Chinese, me, is telling you AI doesn't stand for cancer in Chinese. Not in Mandarin, not in Cantonese, not in Taiwanese, not in Shanghai-nese, not in any Chinese dialect

癌

look up the dictionary dumb@ss, it's pronouced ai

[BRINKER]

i think its catching on in english as well as slang for cancer.

just the other day my buddy told me his grandpa had just been diagnosed with lung AI

[brantonli]

hmm, I just looked it up and he's right. The 拼音是

[west]

癌

look up the dictionary dumb@ss, it's pronouced ai

LMFAO!!!Learn some freaking Chinese before you talk to us.

[jason816]

癌

look up the dictionary dumb@ss, it's pronouced ai

lol, aiite.
since Chinese is my mother-tongue and i don;t have to look it up in a dictionary like yourself.

[wTFaMonkey]

"Chinese" is not a language

[bdreason]

I tried out Mandarin... way too fukcin hard.

I learned a few basic sentences... but I couldn't even imagine trying to learn how to write it.

[imlmf]

and a Chinese, me, is telling you AI doesn't stand for cancer in Chinese. Not in Mandarin, not in Cantonese, not in Taiwanese, not in Shanghai-nese, not in any Chinese dialect

then you might wanna check with your parents again, maybe you are not really chinese

ai = 癌 = kanswer

[jason816]

"Chinese" is not a language

to most people, Chinese is the word to summarize the dialects.
Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Shanghai-nese...Dongbei, Hunan, Hubei...etc

just like Japanese, hey, there are lots of different dialects in Japan~ but you still call the language Japanese no matter what dialect it is.
Tokyo-ben, Oosaka-ben, Touhoku-ben, Ryukyu-go...etc.

[jason816]

then you might wanna check with your parents again, maybe you are not really chinese

ai = 癌 = kanswer

i don't care what it is written in "English", it's Chinese(or Mandarin if you prefer), and it shouldn't be written in alphabet.

[dab0yech0]

I tried out Mandarin... way too fukcin hard.

I learned a few basic sentences... but I couldn't even imagine trying to learn how to write it.

Same here when I was younger my parents wanted me and my brother to learn mandarin for some dumb reason, I used to just go into the class, nap in the back for an hour, then when there was a break I used to just jump the gate and leave and then just come back after school for my little brother to take him home.