毒奶

Chinese

		poison; narcotics	breast; lady; milk
trad. (毒奶)		毒	奶
simp. #(毒奶)		毒	奶
Literally: “poisonous milk”.

Etymology

From the Chinese community of World of Warcraft, describing an unwanted effect where the healing of a 奶媽／奶妈 (nǎimā) (healer) can actually do detriment to a certain kind on character class. Hence, "poisonous milk/healing".

The term later expanded to describe situations where a prediction is bound to bring unwanted detriment to the subject of the perdiction.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dúnǎi

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ ㄋㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶ naai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dúnǎi
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ ㄋㄞˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dúnǎi
    • Wade–Giles: tu²-nai³
    • Yale: dú-nǎi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwunae
    • Palladius: дунай (dunaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵ naɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: duk⁶ naai⁵
    • Yale: duhk náaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹ naai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶ nai⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚² naːi̯¹³/

Noun

毒奶

1. (literally) contaminated milk
2. (Mainland China, neologism, Internet slang) jinx; curse

Synonyms

• (jinx): 烏鴉嘴／乌鸦嘴 (wūyāzuǐ), (Hong Kong Cantonese) 燈神