See also: 沙发

Chinese

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phonetic
trad. (沙發)
simp. (沙发*)

Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from English sofa, probably via Shanghainese.

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    沙發

    1. sofa (Classifier: m)
      我們生活雖說富裕穿沙發電視機什麼別人我們 [MSC, trad.]
      我们生活虽说富裕穿沙发电视机什么别人我们 [MSC, simp.]
      Wǒmen de shēnghuó suīshuō bù suàn fùyù, kě yě bù chóu chī bù chóu chuān de. Nǐ qiáo, zhè shāfā, diànshìjī shénme de, biérén jiā yǒu, wǒmen jiā yě dōu yǒu la! [Pinyin]
      Even though one could say that our life is not considered to be affluent, yet we do not have to worry about food or clothing. Just look at things like this sofa and this TV set; other families have these things, and so do we!
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    Descendants
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    • Lü: ᦌᦱᧈᦝᦱᧉ (saa¹faa²)
    • Mongolian:
      Cyrillic script: шафа (šafa)
      Mongolian script: ᠱᠠᠹᠠ (šafa)
    • Uyghur: سافا (safa)
    • Wutunhua: shafa
    • Zaiwa: shafa
    • Zhuang: sahfaz

    Etymology 2

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    May be altered from 首發 / 首发 (shǒufā) or humorous phono-semantic matching of English so fast. (Shi, 2021, pg. 138)

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    沙發

    1. (Internet slang) first person to reply or comment on an online forum
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