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So does this mean that there isn't a simple, single word exclamation in Mandarin to denote "Nooooooo!"? How about "ffffuuuuuuuck!" etc?

• adastra22 4y ago
  不要 is a single word/lexeme in the linguistic sense, even if it is two syllables.
• thaumasiotes 4y ago
  > How about "ffffuuuuuuuck!" 肏, often euphemistically spelled as 操. But also commonly seen in the expression 我操, which would be two words. You can analyze 不要 in the use under discussion as one word, or as two. There's no rule that says a word can't be more than one syllable long, but then again 不要 is not exactly etymologically opaque.
  • eloisius 4y ago
    Might be a Taiwan thing but the equivalent exclamation to ‘fuck!’ here is ‘幹！’, like ‘fuck, I lost my keys’. I’ve only seen/heard 肏 used in the sense of literal copulation, like ‘fuck your mom!’ as an insult, but not as an interjection. Side note just to illustrate how filthy and vulgar 肏 is: it’s constructed of 入 and 肉. 入 means enter, go into, like 入口 is entrance. 肉 means meat or flesh, like beef 牛肉 or muscle 肌肉.
    • thaumasiotes 4y ago
      我肏 is very common on the mainland. I don't know about bare 肏. But I can assure you that 我肏 is used as an interjection; I have even seen it used by girls. (Which I was actually less surprised by than when I heard someone make fun of herself by saying 傻屄的我...) > just to illustrate how filthy and vulgar 肏 is: it’s constructed of 入 and 肉. 入 means enter, go into, like 入口 is entrance. Occasionally I wonder, if 入口 is entrance, what is the character 如 supposed to represent? Nobody objects to that one.