Chinese words and phrases (Forum Resource)

This is to help both moderators and users with identifying whether a Chinese post is actually spam, or a legit post.

Foreword

Ever since the rise of PUBG (PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS) in China, there have been a massive increase in number of Chinese players on Steam. This led to an increase in Chinese posts on the forums as well.

Due to cultural differences, a lot of the newer Chinese users have no idea that what they're doing may be in violation of Steam's rules, or just annoying in general. Spam is rampant and it is up to us users, along with Steam moderators, to help reduce it.

Below is a list of most commonly used Chinese words and phrases that can help with identifying whether a post is a legitimate post or just spam. Or if it's violating the rules.

Most common Chinese keywords and phrases

吃鸡

Chinese slang for PUBG (lit. "eat chicken", from the PUBG phrase "winner winner chicken dinner")

绝地求生

PUBG's Chinese name

辅助

Cheats (lit. "supplementary aid"), if you see a post with this, they're most likely selling or advocating cheats

外挂

Also cheats, this phrase is more commonly seen

开挂

Cheating

交易

Trade

卖

Sell / Selling

好友 / 加好友

Friend / Add friend, probably already recognizable to most mods

徽章

Badge

被封

(I've been) banned

解封 / 求解封

Unban / Ban appeal

被盗

(My ____ has been) stolen

账户 / 账号 / 帐户 / 帐号

Account

申请

Apply (for)

申诉

Appeal

官方

Official (usually used to refer to game devs or Valve, depending on context)

V社

Valve

客服

Steam Support

管理员

Admins, may be used to refer to moderators as well

版主

Moderators

Epilogue

I will add more words and phrases to the list as new ones become more common.

Also, most "number spam" is usually just that, spam. Some of it may be Chinese Internet slang, such as 233 (their version of "lol") or 666 (another variant of "lol" or to describe something is good), but since only posting "lol" is spam........ well, we know what to do with spam, don't we?

If you find a Chinese word/phrase/post and Google Translate isn't accurately telling you what it means, just post it here and I'll translate for you.

Thanks for helping to keep our community clean, and I'll see you on the forums.

[Phantom]

Wish I had see this earlier.

The cases of Chinese users making threads on a daily basis that circle around PUBG game-bans or developer bans is quite explicitly seen on the New To Steam forum.

In cases where they attempt to translate the issue and create a thread in English; the translation service is poor and comes with the attributed syntax issues; grammar and spelling issues.

Baidu service is noted for this and is known to be the culprit.

[lia]

i see (and it appears that qq numbers are also assigned for @qq.com e-mails, so this may explain their default numerical usernames if they register with those e-mails)

[lia]

nice guide

since you're familiar with chinese culture, i was wondering whether you could explain why many chinese users have a string of numbers as their usernames. i've noticed they don't change them manually after registering but rather leave everything as it is (meaning their username is the first part of their e-mail as far as i understand). so why are they using numbers-only e-mails and why do they leave their usernames like that?

[ianskate]

Thanks!