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Diu (Traditional Chinese: 屌 Hong Kong coinage: �� [門+小] jyutping: diu2 pinyin: diǎo) is a common profanity in Cantonese. It can be regarded as the Cantonese equivalent of the English fuck. In Mandarin, it is equivalent to the English "dick". The character, in Mandarin, is also used by young people in Taiwan to mean "cool" (in this context it is not censored on TV broadcasts).

[edit] In classic Chinese!

Diu is a word in the Chinese language. It appears frequently in the text of the classic novel Water Margin, and is written as 鳥 (meaning "bird", pronounced niǎo in Mandarin and niu5 in Cantonese when used in this usual sense). It is used as an emphatic adjective with a function similar to the English "fucking", "bloody" or "god damned". For example,

武松指著蔣門神，說道：「休言你這廝鳥蠢漢！景陽岡上那隻大蟲，也只三拳兩腳，我兀自打死了！量你這個直得甚麼！快交割還他！但遲了些個，再是一頓，便一發結果了你廝！」Water Margin, Chp. 29

Diu means primarily the penis. It is written as 屌 when used in this sense, but usually as 鳥 when used as an emphatic adjective. For example,

木寸、馬户、尸巾，你道我是個「村驢屌」？Romance of the West Chamber (西廂記), Act 5, Scene 3 (第五本第三折)

屌 has its female equivalent 屄 (pronounced bī in Mandarin and bei1 in Cantonese) in the traditional Chinese written language. In the Yuan Dynasty operas, the word, meaning penis, is sometimes written as 頹. For example,

我見了些覓前程俏女娘，見了些鐵心腸男子漢，便一生里孤眠，我也直甚頹！Jiu Fengchen (救風塵), Act 1 (第一折)

[edit] In Hong Kong and Macau

The written form �� [門+小] is mainly seen in Hong Kong, for example, on graffiti. In Cantonese, it is used as a transitive verb meaning to copulate. In a manner similar to the English word fuck, it is also used to express dismay, disgrace, disapproval and so on. For example, someone may shout "diu nei!" ("fuck you!" or "fuck off!") at somebody when he or she finds that other person annoying.

"Diu lei loh moh!" (屌你老母 "fuck your mother") or "Diu lei loh mei" (屌你老味), a euphemism, is a highly offensive profanity in Cantonese when directed against a specific person instead of used as a general exclamation. In Cantonese, the meaning "I fuck your mother" is implied, as opposed to English, in which the phrase "fuck your mother" is an imperative.

The form �� is absent in the Big-5 character set on computers. The Government of Hong Kong has extended Unicode and the Big-5 character set with the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS), which includes Chinese characters only used in Cantonese, including the Five Great Profanities. The government explained that the reason for these characters being included is to allow for the Hong Kong Police to record criminal suspects' statements. Consequently, these characters are now also in Unicode.

In English, "damn" gives birth to its euphemism "darn"; similarly in Cantonese, especially Hong Kong Cantonese, diu has yiu (妖) and Tiu (挑) "siu"(小) as its euphemisms.

出自維基百科，自由嘅百科全書

「門」字裡加個「小」字

屌，音diu2( 聽)，俗寫��（「門」字入面加個「小」字），係男性外生殖器，引伸成形容男人陽具插入女人陰道時個動作，但含有貶意^{[未記出處或冇根據]}。喺廣東話多數係用嚟鬧人嘅粗口。有時有啲嘢唔順嗰陣，都會講「屌~！」咁樣當係嘆氣，所以亦算係一個助語詞。

喺台灣，屌有另一個完全唔同嘅流行意思，通常解做「好嘢」、「勁」。

 頭號禁字

屌喺廣東話地區嚟講，可以話係頭號禁字，由於呢個字喺廣東話嚟講性質相當侮辱，而且好有攻擊性，所以用呢個字鬧人實撩起人把火。因為咁而令呢個字成為頭號禁字。

香港

喺香港，雖然香港法例無指明話呢個字係粗口^[1]，不過一般共識都已經將呢個字當做粗口。所以喺電視、電台，屌可以話係頭號禁字，唔畀講，而喺電影出現屌，亦都會列做三級片。傳播媒體唔畀，喺根據《廣播事務管理局條例》，但同樣無列明粗口定義，只要有人投訴，就當係粗口。不過傳媒機構有內部守則，講明屌字屬粗口。

[編輯] 字源

魯迅喺魯迅全集曾經引用章太炎嘅研究，指「」同「閪」其實掉轉咗意思，「」係解「閪」，「閪」先係解「」，不過流傳落嚟，已經個個講「閪」，而無人講「閪」，慢慢兩個字意思就掉轉咗嚟用

其實屌字因為意思粗鄙，所以無人用字記錄，從來只係得個音而無字，曾經出現過好多種寫法，好似「肏」、「丟」、「」、「小」、「刁」等。《康熙字典》就以「屌」字為正寫，《李氏中文字典》同《香港粵語詞典》就以「」做正寫。至於話邊個先係正字，其實仲未有一個一致結論。

[編輯] 台灣講屌

屌字無普通話發音，所以喺普通話入面，屌字跟廣東話同一個發音。喺台灣，屌字又同台灣閩南話嘅「對」字同音，於是有啲人就將「屌」字用嚟做「對」字嘅對應^{[未記出處或冇根據]}。最初喺傳媒上出現咁用法，係喺台灣MTV channel一段宣傳：「MTV音樂台，好屌！」，呢句嘢由有「廣告教父」之稱嘅孫大偉創作出嚟，原本意思係：「音樂是有量的」，形容音樂可以令人有快感。呢個廣告出咗之後，「屌」就成為台灣人流行用語，好多人鍾意用「好屌！」去形容一啲好正，好有感受嘅嘢^[2]。

[編輯] 文學講屌

江浙方言同客家話入面，「鳥」、「屌」同音，所以亦有人用「鳥」當「屌」字寫，例如《水滸傳》入面，施耐庵就用「鳥」做「屌」：「武松指著蔣門神，說道：『休言你這廝鳥蠢漢！景陽岡上那隻大蟲，也只三拳兩腳，我兀自打死了！量你這個直得甚麼！快交割還他！但遲了些個，再是一頓，便一發結果了你廝！』」

金朝董解元《西廂記諸宮調》卷三亦出現屌字：「怎背誦《華嚴經》呵？禿屌！」

喺30年代，有人因為覺得陳公博掛住溝女唔理國事，就以「丟」做「屌」字，寫咗首咁嘅打油詩嚟串陳公博，喺《苦笑集》發表：「國事真是丟那媽，近日心事亂如麻，從來不食山西醋，爭看佳人郭艷霞。」