It is however part of the chinese word for noob/newbie.
No disrespect to this mod, just pointing out that it is linguistically wrong.
And for anyone saying that "part" of the word is accurate enough....it is not.
Example - The word "Air". By itself it means 1 thing......"Airplane" means completely another.
Source : I'm a native Chinese in an Asian country which is predominantly Chinese. However, English is the primary language officially and 2nd languages like Chinese is mandatory education from at least age 7 to 16.
Edit : Chinese characters in a Japanese game is still 100% accurate though....because like others have stated much of the Japanese language is derived from the Chinese, and not the other way around. Historically whether the Chinese came first or the Japanese I don't know....but a good guess would be who has the longest history.
in the context it makes perfect sense that it means incompetence. no one is going to think it's talking about vegetable. My friends and I always rag on each other saying "Ni Hao Cai A" (https://imgur.com/a/FZjNUku image of Mandarin) when gaming. We are all native speakers of Mandarin, to us and everyone I met who came from China, Cai, is a perfectly acceptable colloquial adjective.
edit: looks like the posts dont accept Mandarin in them so i changed Mandarin to Pinyin (phonetics).
The "Cai" is actually from a Chinese noun "cai niao", which actually means "rookie" and "newbie", but Chinese players are just like using the shorter version "cai", so there is nothing wrong with this mod.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie scroll down to the similar terms to other langue category you can see it.
you've been living under a rock, if you dunno what cai means, in the context of gaming and internet memes in China, of course in every day language it translates to vegetable. but ask any Chinese gamer if they've been called "cai" online it's an insult that means you're a noob. judging by your description , a Chinese country with English as primary and Chinese second I'm guessing it's Singapore, this meme is mainly a mainland China thing, so of course you don't know it.
@Swiftshadow Can't blame you for not knowing why the character could be used this way if Mandarin is not your primary language. That word is a "slang" or "abbreviation" spoken in Mandarin, not something you could find in the dictionary.
You see, people are laughing at you because you are simply too firm about trying to correct something you aren't even using daily. Next time try to change your attitude from criticizing to inquiring. This way you might learn more instead of embarrassing yourself.
you know ?a part of chinese words are used in Japanese?like English words have “information”?and deutsch also have “information”? Although our relationship are bad?but china and japan is the oldest neighbors. we have a lot of culture in common.
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the word does not mean noob/newbie at all.
it literally translates to Vegetable.
It is however part of the chinese word for noob/newbie.
No disrespect to this mod, just pointing out that it is linguistically wrong.
And for anyone saying that "part" of the word is accurate enough....it is not.
Example - The word "Air". By itself it means 1 thing......"Airplane" means completely another.
Source : I'm a native Chinese in an Asian country which is predominantly Chinese. However, English is the primary language officially and 2nd languages like Chinese is mandatory education from at least age 7 to 16.
Edit : Chinese characters in a Japanese game is still 100% accurate though....because like others have stated much of the Japanese language is derived from the Chinese, and not the other way around. Historically whether the Chinese came first or the Japanese I don't know....but a good guess would be who has the longest history.
No prizes for guessing who.
edit: looks like the posts dont accept Mandarin in them so i changed Mandarin to Pinyin (phonetics).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie
scroll down to the similar terms to other langue category you can see it.
Niu Bi!!!
In china Mainland this character means rookie(Network context only)/vegetables.
You see, people are laughing at you because you are simply too firm about trying to correct something you aren't even using daily. Next time try to change your attitude from criticizing to inquiring. This way you might learn more instead of embarrassing yourself.
Although our relationship are bad?but china and japan is the oldest neighbors. we have a lot of culture in common.
Thank you for keeping this mod updated!
it breaks the controller icons ,what should i do
I'm doing this manually.
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I think “Cai” of Cai Xukun would be nice too