批踢踢

Pītītī

popculture

Meanings

1 PTT, the largest BBS in Taiwan
2 Taiwan's iconic terminal-based bulletin board system

Characters

(phonetic — P)

(phonetic — T)

(phonetic — T)

Examples

这条新闻在批踢踢上炸开了锅。

Zhè tiáo xīnwén zài Pītītī shàng zhà kāi le guō.

This news blew up on PTT.

很多台湾流行语都是从批踢踢传出来的。

Hěn duō Táiwān liúxíngyǔ dōu shì cóng Pītītī chuán chūlái de.

Many Taiwanese slang terms originated on PTT.

Tips

culture

Founded 1995 at National Taiwan University; the name is just a phonetic spelling of 'PTT'. Still runs on a 1990s-style telnet/BBS interface and is the single most influential opinion-shaping site in Taiwan — election polls, gossip, gaming culture, and slang ('鄉民' netizen, '推文' upvote-comment) all trace back here.

In Pop Culture

乡民 xiāngmín

PTT user (literally 'villager')

PTT users self-identify as 乡民 — a self-deprecating tag that became Taiwan's general word for 'netizen / online crowd'.

Stroke Order

批 pī

踢 tī