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What does "666" mean?liuliuliu

Awesome, skillful, well played.

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🇨🇳 Chinese
Pinyin
lyoh-lyoh-LYOH
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How it's actually used

Born in gaming streams and now everywhere online. Typed in chat as pure applause. Carries none of the Western connotation of the number.

Examples

Where it comes from

六 (liù, six) sounds like 溜 (liū), meaning smooth or slick. Six-six-six = seriously slick.

Before you say it

It means "smooth," not anything sinister. The Western reading of 666 does not exist here.

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Reading a definition isn't the same as saying it to someone. Lingo Kaiava is a voice tutor set to Chinese — it uses 666 the way locals do, corrects you in the moment, and never "fixes" the way real people actually talk into textbook Chinese.

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