Watch: The Chinese Equivalent of “That’s F*cking Awesome”

OJBK is one of the many new-school amalgamations of Mandarin and English. Here, we teach you how to say "OK", but cooler

By Adan Kohnhorst September 3, 2019

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OJBK is one of the many new-school amalgamations of Mandarin and English. Here, we teach you how to say "OK", but cooler

Slang Dynasty is a series that unpacks the wide world of Chinese regional slang, internet colloquialisms, and assorted street-level jargon.

On today’s episode of Slang Dynasty, RADII’s Dawei Chen explains a new-school amalgamation of Mandarin and English, “OJBK”.

The acronym is an extension of “OK”, “O鸡吧K“, where the characters ji ba mean — as Dawei so elegantly puts it — “dick”.

“It’s kinda like, instead of saying ‘that’s awesome’, you say ‘that’s f*cking awesome.'”

Thanks Dawei. Tune in next time for another episode of Slang Dynasty.

Adan Kohnhorst

Adan Kohnhorst is a Shanghai-based writer, producer, and multimedia artist, and the Associate Editor at RADII. His work has been featured in publications such as Maxim and the Chinese-language StreetVoice, and he’s an active member of the hip hop and DIY music scenes in Shanghai, NYC, and Dallas. He learned Mandarin in high school so he could train at the Shaolin Temple, but now just uses it to interview rappers. He blogs about China and Asia on Instagram: @this.is.adan

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