Taiwanese slang translations help-please help me out. :D

Language Taiwanese and Hakka Corner
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Hello. I went elsewhere asking for Taiwanese translations and I was given:

tough guy ¶ñ¹÷£¬»ì»ì£¬°¢·É£¬
tough female º·¸¾£¬
strong guy ÃÍÄÐ
punk °¢·É£¬Åó¿Í
ruffian ÎÞÀµ
brat Сº¢×Ó£¬ÍÞ¶ù£¬Ð¡Ã«º¢¶ù£¬

Can someone please transliterate these terms to Romanized Taiwanese? :smiley:

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[quote=“Mavericker”]Hello. I went elsewhere asking for Taiwanese translations and I was given:

tough guy ¶ñ¹÷£¬»ì»ì£¬°¢·É£¬
tough female º·¸¾£¬
strong guy ÃÍÄÐ
punk °¢·É£¬Åó¿Í
ruffian ÎÞÀµ
brat Сº¢×Ó£¬ÍÞ¶ù£¬Ð¡Ã«º¢¶ù£¬

Can someone please transliterate these terms to Romanized Taiwanese? :smiley:[/quote]

The Chinese turned into garbage code on my computer; can anyone else read it? I tried various encodings. Mavericker, can you try setting your encoding to, say, Big5 or Unicode, and then reposting that?

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Hello, Mavericker, are you there? Hello? Are you still here? Hello?

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Hello Fortigurn-I’m here.
Can you please help me out?

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How do you say “lone wolf” in Hokkien?

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I think I might be able to help. I don’t know Hanyu Pinyin, so I have to post those phrases in Chinese. I hope my translations are close enough. :smiley:

tough guy 硬漢 壯漢

tough female 女金剛 女強人

tomboy 男人婆 野丫頭

guy prone to fighting 流氓
girl prone to fighting 女流氓

hoodlum 歹徒 強盜

thug 刺客 兇手

ruffian 惡棍 無賴

delinquent girl 太妹 不良少女
delinquent boy 太保 不良少年 小混混 痞子

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[quote=“machess”]I think I might be able to help. I don’t know Hanyu Pinyin, so I have to post those phrases in Chinese. I hope my translations are close enough. :smiley:

tough guy 硬漢 壯漢

tough female 女金剛 女強人

tomboy 男人婆 野丫頭

guy prone to fighting 流氓
girl prone to fighting 女流氓

hoodlum 歹徒 強盜

thug 刺客 兇手

ruffian 惡棍 無賴

delinquent girl 太妹 不良少女
delinquent boy 太保 不良少年 小混混 痞子[/quote]

Thank you for your help and for responding.

Do you know any Taiwanese slangs that are used for:

cool guy
cool girl?

Please let me know. :smiley:

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[quote=“machess”]I think I might be able to help. I don’t know Hanyu Pinyin, so I have to post those phrases in Chinese. I hope my translations are close enough. :smiley:

tough guy 硬漢 壯漢

tough female 女金剛 女強人

tomboy 男人婆 野丫頭

guy prone to fighting 流氓
girl prone to fighting 女流氓

hoodlum 歹徒 強盜

thug 刺客 兇手

ruffian 惡棍 無賴

delinquent girl 太妹 不良少女
delinquent boy 太保 不良少年 小混混 痞子[/quote]

Hi machess. Can you please help me out with some more terms?:

I’d like to know what are Taiwanese slangs for:

woman prone to fighting
cool guy
cool girl
gangster
punk
wild girl
wild boy
powerfully-built male
powerfully-built female
strong guy
strong girl
strong woman

Please list as many translations as possible. Thank you. :smiley: