How to Swear in Mandarin (by JL Herbert)

The following words and phrases were used in the Firefly TV series and have been translated. Many of them are profane and rather insulting, you were warned.

• Ta ma duh! "Fuck me blind!"

• BEE-jway. "Shut up."

• Shr ah. "Affirmative."

• (Joo ta ma ya ming). Joo-yee. "Watch your back."

• Ai ya! Hwai leh! "Shit on my head!"

• Nee ta ma duh. Tyen-shia suo-yo duh run doh gai si. "Fuck everyone in the universe to

• death."

• mei-mei "little sister"

• kwong-chee duh "nuts, meaning crazy

• Hwoon dahn! “Bastard”

• Kuh-oo duh lao bao-jun: "Horrible old tyrant..."

• Dong ma? “Understand?”

• go tsao duh “dog-humped”

• Wuh de ma "Mother of god."

• Tzao gao or gos se "Crap."

• yu bun duh "stupid"

• Jien tah duh guay! “Like hell!”

• Liou koe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh bun ur-tze. “ Stupid son of a drooling

• harlot and a monkey.”

• luh-suh "garbage"

• Ma-shong! "Now!"

• Da-shiong bao-jah-shing duh la-doo-tze "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant,"

• jien hwo "cheap floozy"

• "Ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng" "frog-humping sonofabitch."

• "HOE-tze duh PEE-goo!" “Monkey's butt!

• "Suo-SHEE" "petty"

• "Chiang-BAO HOE-tze duh" "monkey raping"

• "FAHNG-sheen." "Don't worry."

• "Wuo duh MA" "Mother-of-Jesus"

• "gun HOE-tze bee DIO-se” "engage in a feces hurling contest with a monkey"