w7u4

Chinese

		what	freaking thing	you	say
simp. and trad. (w7u4)		w	7	u	4
Literally: “What the freak are you saying?”.

Etymology

Initialism of English what + Cantonese 7 (cat1), a euphemism for Chinese 柒 (cat6, “penis”) + English u (“you”) + Cantonese 四 (sei3, “four”), near-homophone with English say and written as a number.

Phrase

w7u4

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) what on earth are you saying?

References

• Wetters, R. (2021) ““Kong Girl Phonetics”: Loose Cantonese Romanization in the 2019 Hong Kong Protest Movement”, in Sino-Platonic Papers‎^[1], number 317, →ISSN