is one of the largest Chinese language groups worldwide. Profanity in Hokkien most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. The mentioning of sexual organs is frequently used in Hokkien profanity.
Insults
As in English, a vulgar word for the sexual actfuck is used in insults and expletives. Below are the most commonly used Hokkien vulgar words.
Most frequently used F-word
kàn - fuck. Expressions:
*"kàn lín lāu-bú chhàu chi-bai" ; often abbreviated to "kàn lín lāu-bú" or simply "kàn lín niâ" - the most notoriously popular Hokkien expletive meaning "fuck your mother's smelly cunt".
*"sio kàn" - to fuck
*"tio̍h kàn" - to get fucked
*"hiong kàn/hong kàn" - expression used in anger, meaning "go get fucked!"
Kan literally meaning fuck, is the most common but grossly vulgar profanity in Hokkien. It's sometimes also written as. It is considered to be the nationalswear word in Taiwan and Singapore. Used in a manner similar to the English word fuck, kan can expresses dismay, disgrace, and disapproval. It is extremely offensive when used to insult someone. Variety of phrases associated with Kan:
kàn lín-niâ chhàu chi-bai = fuck your mother's smelly vagina
kàn lín lāu-bú poah chi-bai = fuck your mother's vagina, literally means "fuck your mother and stir/move the vagina"
kàn lín-niâ-bú chhàu chi-bai = fuck your mother's smelly vagina. In Singapore, niâ-bú 娘母 also exists in other variants of pronunciation such as nâ-bú, nâ-beh.
kàn lí chin-sóng = literally means "it's cool to rape/fuck you"
kàn kah ē khan-si = literally means "fucking you until it becomes wet". Describing that vagina will become wet and intertwined like a spider web during sexual intercourse
lín-niâ, lín-niâ--leh or lín-niâ khah-hó = short form for kàn lín-niâ, meaning "fuck your mother".
sio-kàn = means having sex, fucking each other, to fuck
tio̍h kàn = to get fucked
hiông-kàn = expression used in anger, meaning "go get fucked!"
khí-kàn = start scolding someone in vulgarity, start swearing
lān-jiáu - penis; also used as an expression to indicate incredulity, as in the English "Bullshit!". Expressions:
*koài-lān - literally 'weird penis', used to call somebody fucked up or abnormal.
*kóng lān-chiáu oe - to talk rubbish
*khoàⁿ siáⁿ-mih lān-chiáu? - "What the hell are you looking at?"
lām-pha - scrotum; also used as an expression to indicate incredulity, as in the English "Bollocks!" Nasal assimilation takes place as the onset of the second syllable is a bilabial, turning the underlying form /n/ in the coda of the first syllable to the surface form /m/.
lān-hu̍t' - testes; used in a similar way as the above examples.
